can someone from the north explain to me why my northern cousins call our grandpa papa

@hippyjoe1955 I don't know the oldest of the grandkids after my brother and me was raised by papa and Nana Joe his wife that maybe where it comes from. i didn't even know about him til i was 9 and didn't meet him til i was 10 so we just called him what she did. she was the oldest grandkid til we came along shes a year younger than me i think maybe 2

@foggymorning31 Yeah same here. The oldest grandson learning to talk made the sound Papa when referring to me the name stuck. His other grandfather is called Grandpa so that is one way they have differentiating between us.

@hippyjoe1955 lol my niece couldn't say nanny when she was 1 and called my Mom nanu it stuck too.

@foggymorning31 That is cool. My Welsh Mum insisted that we call her father Granddad.

@hippyjoe1955 I never knew my moms dad but all the kids called him grandpa so i refer to him as that

@foggymorning31 I never knew my paternal grandfather although I did meant him when I was an infant. He died when I was a year and a half and I have no memory of him at all. My older sisters referred to him as Grandpa.

@hippyjoe1955 he died the year before i was born served in ww2

@foggymorning31 My Grandpa was a farmer and was sent back to keep farming when he tried to enlist. Three of my uncles served in his stead. All survived without a scratch.

@hippyjoe1955 my Nana's daddy was deemed to have to important of a job to be taken.

@foggymorning31 Yeah it is funny how it worked. My father in law was a commissioned officer because he had been to college. He wasn't very good and none of the men in his battalion liked or respected him. He rose the the rank of first lieutenant by the end of the war. I was in the reserves in peace time and was promoted to captain in less time than he.

@hippyjoe1955 lol sounds like soble

@hippyjoe1955 if you don't know who that is check out the show band of Brothers. real ass who was the original co for the main company in the show. whose troops hated him so much his NCos threatened to all step down if he wasn't removed

@foggymorning31 The funny thing is that I never knew my father in law existed before I met his daughter. It turned out that my uncles were in the same battalion as he was. His wife my mother in law grew up on a farm next to an aunt that married one of my uncles. Dear Wife and I still joke about how our families knew each other before we did.

@hippyjoe1955 lol

@foggymorning31 I was talking to one of my uncles who said the troops were coming back from the front when my father in law stuck his head in the truck and told the men that they obviously needed more training. One of the men climbed down from the truck and punched the father in law out. He was soon transferred out of the regiment. He went on to be a decorated warrior. He was in combat and called artillery fire on his own position to drive off the Germans.