Is there a French nickname for "grandmother?"
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"Yes, I grew up in a French/Canadian family. My grandparents only spoke french. We called them Mémère and Pépère. It's a term of endearment we little people call out grandparents."
Same here but even more so my wife's family.
Same here but even more so my wife's family.
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"Mamie" and "Papi" (for the grand-father) are by far the most common nicknames nowadays in France. Of course, there is no rule about that, but "mémé" sounds older (I called my grand mother "mémé" 20 years ago) and "mémère" even older (in my imagination "mémé and "mémère" are now pejorative), but it probably depends on areas in France.
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Two commercial footnotes:
In Dutch, "oma" is also used in "omafiets" - a grandma bike, for a basic simple step-through model with the enclosed chain.
And in the UK, some people use "Nana" as a generic, as in this advert:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z_thlxUSdk
(I don't have any data on how many grandmothers had to replace the TVs they'd chucked out of the window after watching that ad).
In Dutch, "oma" is also used in "omafiets" - a grandma bike, for a basic simple step-through model with the enclosed chain.
And in the UK, some people use "Nana" as a generic, as in this advert:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z_thlxUSdk
(I don't have any data on how many grandmothers had to replace the TVs they'd chucked out of the window after watching that ad).
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Nana Mouskouri is Greek, not French. That was a nickname for her full Greek name, Ioanna, so I suppose didn't have the same connotations as in French (it was a long time ago, anyway). She doesn't even live in France any more.
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