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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.