Aug 6, 2017 · According to Dictionary.com (American Dictionary), Nana is one's grandmother, and Nanna is "The wife of Balder" (Scandinavian Mythology) or "The Sumerian god of the moon: the counterpart of the Akkadian god Sin". A question was raised at this. I am Australian and have always spelt Nana as Nana. My brother, however, spells it as Nanna.

Oct 4, 2012 · Etymonline also notes that nanna is also a Greek word for aunt. Grandma has similar origins. The word mama is a child's form of mother. In languages like German and English, the parents of one's parents have the grand-prefix applied to create their names. The original form of grandma was grandmama (18th century, OED).

Aug 6, 2018 · Since English has never made a distinction between maternal and paternal grandparents, less formal terms such as nan/nanna will not do so either. Gran, for instance, was my paternal grandfather, but many people call their grandmothers that. To my cousins (father's brother's children) he was Papa, and their mother's mother was Nanna.

Using "yourself" and "ourselves" in these contexts is incorrect. "Yourself," "ourselves," and "myself" are reflexive pronouns, correctly used when the subject/actor of the sentence and the object/recipient are the same person or group.

Jul 29, 2013 · I have looked through several questions and answers on EL&U, and often there is an indication that American English prefers "have" while British English prefers "have got". In addition, there are

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Jun 10, 2014 · I'm trying to figure out if there is a specific rule behind the word "cancel" that would cause "cancellation" to have two L's, but "canceled" and "canceling" to have only one (in the US).