{"id":14027,"date":"2017-05-23T13:35:33","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T12:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=14027"},"modified":"2017-05-23T13:35:33","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T12:35:33","slug":"when-your-gran-is-your-granddad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=14027","title":{"rendered":"When your gran is your granddad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a book I&#8217;m reading at the moment &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1902638816\/omniglot-21\"><em>Border Country<\/em><\/a> by Raymond Williams &#8211; one of the characters calls his grandfather &#8216;<strong>Gran<\/strong>&#8216;, which strikes me as unusally. To me gran could only refer to a grandmother. Does it seem strange to you?<\/p>\n<p>I only remember one of my grandparents &#8211; my dad&#8217;s mum &#8211; who I think we called granny. We used the same term for my mum&#8217;s stepmother, who was with us until 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Some people I know have different names for their grandmothers. For example, their mum&#8217;s mum might be nan, and their dad&#8217;s mum might be gran or granny. I haven&#8217;t noticed people having different names for their grandfathers in English. <\/p>\n<p>In Welsh though, people sometimes add the name of the place where they live to the words for grandfather and grandmother. For example, <em>Taid Dinbych<\/em> (Denbigh Granddad) and <em>Nain Caergybi<\/em> (Holyhead Granny), or in South Wales <em>Tad-cu Casnewydd<\/em> (Newport Granddad) and <em>Mam-gu Caerdydd<\/em> (Cardiff Granny).<\/p>\n<p>What do you call, or did you call, your grandparents?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a book I&#8217;m reading at the moment &#8211; Border Country by Raymond Williams &#8211; one of the characters calls his grandfather &#8216;Gran&#8216;, which strikes me as unusally. To me gran could only refer to a grandmother. Does it seem strange to you? I only remember one of my grandparents &#8211; my dad&#8217;s mum &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}