Would you allow your kid to call his/her grandma “mammy”

[Anonymous]

If I heard it I'd assume he was mispronouncing 'Mandy'.

[Anonymous]

I just realized that people may consider the way my kids call me racist (it's normal for my home country). I don't think it's pronounced exactly the same, but considering the uproar some professor quoting a Chinese phrase in class caused, it probably doesn't matter.Thankfully, they speak to me in my native language, so we may be fine.

[Anonymous]

The provincialness of these reactions is lol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My family is Irish, and we always call our grandmother Gammy, and mother Mammy, as is done in Ireland.

Watching Hinterland on Netflix, takes place in Wales, everyone refers to mother as Mammy. "Is your mammy home?"

[Anonymous]

I had to google Mammy. This seems much different and fine.

[Anonymous]

The woke crowd has truly run amok. “Bad thoughts and words”??

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Mammy=rhymes with Tammy

The French Mamie which means grandmother is pronounced the same...but with a French accent obvs.

No, French is pronounced MAAh-mee, roughly rhyming with Swami. There is no nasal open "A" in French.

[Anonymous]

Hard no to this! My MIL tried to get DD to call her Mammy because some of her other grandkids do. She thought it was cute. I just kept repeating Grammy to DD and it stuck.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My family is Irish, and we always call our grandmother Gammy, and mother Mammy, as is done in Ireland.

Watching Hinterland on Netflix, takes place in Wales, everyone refers to mother as Mammy. "Is your mammy home?"

Derry Girls as well. I’m AA and admit I was a bit jarred by it initially. However, we do not live in Ireland.

[Anonymous]

I would have gently modfiied it to Gammy or Grammy when he was much younger. I would probably still try to start saying saying things like we are going to your Grandma's house today. Rather then we are going to Mammy's house today.

[Anonymous]

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??? My children call their Grandmother "Mamie" because she's French and it's the accepted French term for "Grandma" (Papi is Grandpa). I never knew there was a racist connotation to it, and honestly wouldn't care, as long as the recipient is fine with it.

Are you the OP? Mammy (which is not an ok name for anyone’s grandma these days) is pronounced differently than the French Mamie. But surely you already know this.

PP you replied to. I am not OP, I am French, living here in the US, but solely from reading the words, I would pronounce them the same way. Are they not? Mamie is pronounced with an open "A" sound.

They’re pronounced very differently. An American would not recognize Mamie as sounding like Mammy. You’re fine. This thread is not about Mamie.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Mammy=rhymes with Tammy

The French Mamie which means grandmother is pronounced the same...but with a French accent obvs.

No, French is pronounced MAAh-mee, roughly rhyming with Swami. There is no nasal open "A" in French.

Like I said...with a French accent.

Just like the Irish say it with an Irish accent.

But it’s pretty much the same. And it’s fine. We live in a global world.

[Anonymous]

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??? My children call their Grandmother "Mamie" because she's French and it's the accepted French term for "Grandma" (Papi is Grandpa). I never knew there was a racist connotation to it, and honestly wouldn't care, as long as the recipient is fine with it.

Are you the OP? Mammy (which is not an ok name for anyone’s grandma these days) is pronounced differently than the French Mamie. But surely you already know this.

PP you replied to. I am not OP, I am French, living here in the US, but solely from reading the words, I would pronounce them the same way. Are they not? Mamie is pronounced with an open "A" sound.

They’re pronounced very differently. An American would not recognize Mamie as sounding like Mammy. You’re fine. This thread is not about Mamie.

Ask Siri how to pronounce Mamie in French.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My family is Irish, and we always call our grandmother Gammy, and mother Mammy, as is done in Ireland.

Yes in Ireland mothers are typically called Mammy or Mam.

But does it rhyme with Tammy?

[Anonymous]

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??? My children call their Grandmother "Mamie" because she's French and it's the accepted French term for "Grandma" (Papi is Grandpa). I never knew there was a racist connotation to it, and honestly wouldn't care, as long as the recipient is fine with it.

Are you the OP? Mammy (which is not an ok name for anyone’s grandma these days) is pronounced differently than the French Mamie. But surely you already know this.

PP you replied to. I am not OP, I am French, living here in the US, but solely from reading the words, I would pronounce them the same way. Are they not? Mamie is pronounced with an open "A" sound.

They’re pronounced very differently. An American would not recognize Mamie as sounding like Mammy. You’re fine. This thread is not about Mamie.

Ask Siri how to pronounce Mamie in French.

To my ear, the French sounds like Mauhmmy, closer to mommy. The American "mammy" uses an A sound I don't think I've ever heard in French. It's more like the sound of American English " I am."