Grandfathers

[wanderingfrog]

We called one of my grandfathers "Pa," but not like Pa Ingalls, pronounced instead like "Pat" without the "t" on the end. We call my other grandfather "Guido." No, we're not Italian; we use it as an Anglicized version of the Ukrainian word for "grandfather." The names for my grandmothers are a bit more mundane: one is "Grandma" (although my cousins call her "Granny"), and the other was "Nanny," or possibly "Nannie."

[greer]

^What is the Ukrainian word for grandfather that you got "guido" from? I'm curious because I study Russian and I know that the Russia word is dyedushka, so I figured that the Ukrainian one must be similiar and it was: diid. So where does the "g" come from? Help a slavic language geek out!

[wanderingfrog]

I wish I could help, but I don't think I can. I think some people (possibly just those related to me, or possibly more people than that) just thought the "D" sound at the beginning was a hard "G" sound. I've got a Ukrainian phrasebook here, and it says that using the Cyrillic
alphabet, "grandfather" is:

дiдуcь

or something like that, because I'm not sure I can make it show up
properly. The book doesn't spell the same word with the Latin alphabet, but it does offer a phonetic version of it: deedoos'.
So I don't think I'm much help.

[greer]

Putting stuff in the Latin alphabet just confuses everything anyway. Cyrillic is so sensible.

Maybe some baby mispronounced with the "g" and it stuck? Cause it looks like Ukrainian cyrllic has 2 "g" letters.

[wanderingfrog]

greer said:

Putting stuff in the Latin alphabet just confuses everything anyway. Cyrillic is so sensible.

It might be sensible the rest of the time, but not when I'm trying to make Cyrillic letters show up in a post on the board, as opposed to letters that I can see on the keyboard and just have to press them and that's it.

[greer]

my cyrillic thing is phonetic, so it's almost as easy, although i don't think they have it for ukrainian.

[aln1982]

I've often wondered if Kristy's dad's dad is still living and got my answer in SS #1 when she told Mr. Staples that she wished if her grandpas were living that they would be like him. (Still don't know about Patrick's mother - she's never mentioned). I know he wasn't really her grandfather but I loved Mr. Staples' and Kristy's friendship. It was really touching to me as I used to be close with my Grandpa and miss him a lot. My other grandpa is a jerk who is rude to me and doesn't even bother acknowledging me anymore so I don't really consider that he is alive. Reading about Kristy and Mr. Staples made me wish I could find a "surrogate grandpa". Wish they would have showed more relationships between the girls and their Grandpas but I guess Jessi and Dawn were the only ones who had them. I really liked Pop Pop - what books has he been in?

[booboobrewer]

Off the top of my head - Dawn and the Impossible Three, Babysitters' Remember, Dawn's Book. There are probably more...

[lyricalangel]

My cousin's kids call their grandpa(my uncle) Poppy.

[sparklymouse]

I've often wondered if Kristy's dad's dad is still living and got my answer in SS #1 when she told Mr. Staples that she wished if her grandpas were living that they would be like him. (Still don't know about Patrick's mother - she's never mentioned).

Now that makes me wonder if Patrick's whole family disowned his kids cause I don't remember anybody ever being mentioned. If so then Elizabeth married into a really nice family!

[aln1982]

I always thought that was strange in Kristy and the Missing Fortune. If Patrick's family was around, why didn't she ask them about Christina? Know what it's like to have family you don't associate with though

[CharlotteTJohanssen]

This is an old thread but Mallory mentions that she’s going to visit her grandparents in Stacey’s choice. So we know one of her grandfathers is still alive. I wonder how far away they are?