When speaking about/to your parents what terms do you use?

I used to like to listen to people speak about their parents, if they spoke kindly of them. I know some kids were raised in abusive homes and that's just being dealt a terrible hand to start out in life. You have my respect and sympathy that you made it through those years and turned out OK, hopefully.

My parents died when I was very young, but my grandparents were the best there was. When I graduated high school, I honored my Grandmother and Grandfather and then I did the same when I graduated from the Naval Academy. Without their support, I don't know how my life would have turned out.
 
With us, it was Mum, Dad, Granny and Granda. Mother would sometimes refer to father as 'Pop'. They had some 'colourful' Glaswegian terms for referring to me. Talking about them, I tend to use Mother and Father as I had a somewhat distant relationship with them.
 

Last edited:
When we (family) are talking about mum, she is often referred to as "mummy" and it was the same with "daddy" but, when talking to them it was always mum and dad. Most people I know use the same terms. One of my brothers began calling them "mater" and "pater" which didn't go down too well!

Noun. mater (plural maters or matres) (Britain, slang, now chiefly archaic or humorous) Mother.
 
Capt Lightning said:
With us, it was Mum, Dad, Granny and Granda. Mother would sometimes refer to father as 'Pop'. They had some 'colourful' Glaswegian terms for referring to me. Talking about them, I tend to use Mother and Father as I had a somewhat distant relationship with them.
Click to expand...
My mum and her mother always disliked "granny" so mum was always "nanny" and her mother was "nanna".
 
Gaer said:
All my life, I called my Mother, "Mother", even when I was a toddler. I never called her "Mom".
Click to expand...
My sister did the same. I asked her why she didn’t just call her mom and she said she didn’t know.
 
When I was little-bitty I called them Mommy and Daddy, but when I became school-aged she became Ma and he became Pop. Somehow I do not remember this, but I was told the latter was something I picked up from a t.v. show.

Pop always remained Pop, but I eventually began referring to her by her first name.. and sometimes other terms that aren't so pleasant.
 
Trish said:
My mum and her mother always disliked "granny" so mum was always "nanny" and her mother was "nanna".
Click to expand...
I was raised by my grandparents, grandma would never have tolerated granny. Back in her day you couldn't buy sanitary products, so they used cloths that they had to wash out daily. Those cloths were called "granny rags"
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Back
Top