Re: Relations

On Mon, 12 Apr 1999 13:23:04 -0400 John Cowan <cowan@...>
writes:
>My daughter (age 12) has distinct names (not descriptions) for her
>four
>grandparents: my parents (deceased) are Gramma /gr&ma/ and Grampa
>/gr&mpa/, and my wife's parents (alive) are Granmommy /gr&(n)mami/ and
>Grandaddy /gr&nd&di/.
>
>--
>John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
That's similar to what i've always done...for some reason i only use the
word "grandma" to refer to my mother's mother, who was the only one who i
knew.  I refer to all the others, who passed away before i was born, as
"my father's father".  I also refer to them by their first names, like i
do with other relatives who i've never met.  So for instance my
great-uncle Marvin is "Uncle Marvin", but his brother Gabriel, who i've
never met, is just "Gabriel".


-Stephen (Steg)
 "God punishes - humans take revenge."

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