My husband and I began being blessed with grandchildren in May of 1998 and by Nov of 2004 we had nine. We add one more in 06.
So many things in my life ‘happened’ to me before I knew what was happening(I was always reacting, not being proactive), that for once I wanted to decide what my grandchilden would call me. I went to the library, polled my friends, checked with my children’s inlaws to make sure of no duplicates and I finally decided on Grammy. We had to change internet providers shortly after that so I needed an email tag and my last name starts with E so I put down grame. All that research and all i had to do was sign up for an email acct. But the grandkids love it, and so do my kids. It gives the grandmas individual identities.
Our neighbors’ kids used to call their grandparents, “mom-mom” and “pop-pop.” It was kinda cute. Although, I don’t know how pop-pop, who was a saint, put up with mom-mom. She could have stretched anyone’s patience!
No duplicate? Here’s a no duplicate:
“Mommle”
Or as my nephew and others including my mom mis-spell it, “Mah-Mal”. But “mommle” best describes in English phonetics how they say it.
It’s all thanks to my older nephew who attempted to call to his grandma at an early age, not knowing what to call her, I guess. I suppose he heard his mom and me call her “Mom”.
It’s stuck. His sisters adopted it and so even have Mom’s elder “step-grandchildren”! LOL 35year-olds seriously calling her “Mommle”. She likes it because she’s vain and it’s hard for people to tell it means “grandma” and thus, “old woman”.