And that man will wear that name with pride for the rest of his life.

I never understood this, as my grandparents were always grandma/grandpa, or granny (in my paternal granmothers case she preferred it).

Then I moved to the south, and met my husband's family and friends. Every single one of them had weird names for at least one of their grandparents. A lot of them called grandmother "meemaw" and my father in law is papaw to my neices and nephews.

I took it as a cultural thing, but it still feels a bit strange to me.

My grandpa's life partner came into his life after my dad was an adult but before I was born, so she's been in the family longer than I have. She never wanted to be called anything other than her first name, but by all measures, she is my grandma, and I love her. So I've had the typical grandma/grandpa names for mine, but I also have an Izzy, and that's really special to me.

Bumpa... and damn proud of it.

Ha! This happened with my mother-in-law! She wanted to be called grandma, but when my daughter was a baby and first learning to talk, she pointed to my wife and said, "Mama!" and then she pointed to my mother-in-law and said, "Momo!" She's been Momo ever since.

"This is my pee pee and my poo poo! The guy's 95 years old, he fought in WWII, stormed the beach at Normandy, now his name is Peepee?? What are you doing to the man?"

My nan was called "smelly nan" until the day she died. I think it was because she wore a gallon of perfume to cover the smell of fags.

In my part of Appalachia, all grandpas in the family are "pap" which was very funny when my grandma married a man from England. He refused to let us call him that. For reasons.

Or a son-in-law that teaches your grandkids to call you "Pee-paw".

Paybacks gonna be a bitch Rob!

We rescued a kitten about a month ago, immediately named him Pipo (or Peepo, same thing). I have never seen a cat wear his name so well. I heard Pipo is a famous character in italian children's jokes

Can confirm. I have met a proud poo-pa in my past.

My paternal grandmother was the opposite of this - apparently she really wanted a grandparent nickname and didn't care what it was. So there's, IDK, 2 year old me running around and I saw she was wearing big old sunglasses, and I said, "Cool Dude!" And it stuck.

Miss you, Dude.

My grandma didn't want us to call her grandma because it made her feel old, so we call her by a shortening of her name instead.

I literally had a high school orchestra conductor named "Dr. Pipo" and it was pronounced exactly like that.

Interesing to see this at the top of my feed after watching Redbad last night. Poppo was his son. Similar enough to make me think of it.

My great grandfather was bestowed with this. My father, when asked to say papa (this was when he was months old) responded with "Gug" so he started to be called Gug. This gentleman had a habit of calling everybody 'buster'. He did this with my older sister when she was like 4-5. So she called him "Buster Gug" and from that day on, that became his name to the entire family. I actually don't even know what his real name was. He died when I was young but he had a name given to him from 2 different generations.