or do you just say the name?
Like say you had to get auntie sarah’s attenion, are you saying “auntie sarah” or are you just saying “sarah”?
Just the name for me.
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Just the name now but had to live through an awkward period of transition where it was excruciating to say the Auntie/Uncle prefix (the same transition period was need to go from “Nanny” to “Nan”)
I have specifically requested that my nephew and niece don’t call me Uncle Tone in order to avoid the awkward bit where they’re too old to say it
I don’t talk to any of them
Think my niece stopped the uncling around the age of ten or eleven. I’ve tried not to hold it against her too much.
I also used to call my grandmother by her first name (she preferred it as she thought being called gran or similar made her sound old).
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I have no aunts or uncles. My mum was an only child, and my dad had a brother who died in a motorbike accident ten years before I was born.
Did aunty/uncle as a kid, now I just say their name.
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I still call my aunties and uncles by auntie [name] and uncle [name] and i’m 30 in 13 days.
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Oddly, I would like the children of my friends (of which there was a new one yesterday that has made me dead emotional and delighted today) to call me Uncle Tone but not my actual nephew and niece.
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How do you feel about it?
Weird.
Fine really.
Can’t recall if my cousins call my parents in the same way but I have a feeling they do.
You’ve got to make the transition mate
Oh, I was responding to the “Weird.” post
my fave uncle died in a motorbike accident…that’s all I’ve got relevant to this…
Dunno I just say Tony and one of them pipes up eventually.
I feel a bit odd about children calling other people auntie and uncle when they’re not their auntie or uncle
What do you call your parents?
- their first name
- Mum / Dad
- Mummy / Daddy
- Mother / Father
- other
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Don’t have any auntie or uncles, so no