AGREED. -----Original Message----- From: JGCorse@aol.com <JGCorse@aol.com> To: ORKNEY-L@rootsweb.com <ORKNEY-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, May 22, 1999 10:00 AM Subject: Re: [ORKNEY-L] What do/did you call your grand-parents siblings? >I can't help wondering if you are trying to be too PC. Children always >manage to find a fitting name for grandparents according to their expertise >with pronunciation. Keep the "proper" names for the paper records. My >husband and I are simply Granny and Grampa and that suits us fine. > >My difficulty lies in the "modern" trend of calling people by their first >names when they are of an older generation. I always called my elders Mr. >and Mrs. unless they were close friends of my parents and then they became >Aunt and Uncle whether they were related or not. Both my sons-in-law call me >by my first name and I find it offensive although I've never told them so. >They both have living mothers but I called my mother-in-law Mother although >my own mother was alive. It never seemed to confuse anyone! Any suggestions? >