So- if it arrests the child's development, and I agree that it does, then isn't the use of these effeminate terms in the service of not being called a granny when you are one a case of putting the adult's priorities above those of the child and such selfishness then being obfusticated by a stream of mawkish sentimentality which the schools then have to deal with as best they can.
I've asked around and there is 100% agreement that Nana and Nan-nan are soppy,soft, mard, pinkie and all points to Little Lord Fauntelroy.
Quote:The story concerns an American boy named Cedric, who at an early age finds that he is the sole heir to a British earldom and leaves New York to take up residence in his ancestral castle, where, after some initial resistance, he is joined by his middle-class mother, "Dearest", the widow of the late heir. His grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, intends to teach the boy to become an aristocrat, but Cedric inadvertently teaches his grandfather compassion and social justice and the artless simplicity and motherly love of Dearest warms his heart.
Aaaahh!!!. Not like the England front row eh?
