Aunts and Uncles

[Rock]

Today as I was enjoying my Imperial Garden Buffet...my lady asked me something. Do most people call their aunts and uncles by their first name or prefixed with a Uncle or Aunt.

Her father is from Italy and she calls her Uncles and Aunts with an uncle or aunt.

My folks are from pakistan so I do the same thing but with the pakistani equivalent.

the only friends I can think of that I hear talk about their aunts and uncles or that I know their aunts and uncles just call them by their first name. These are families that are at least a couple of generations deep in the US.

So it made me wonder if its just us first generationers that do it or do people with deeper roots in the US do it too. We can't think of any of our friends that do.

"What say you?"

[B4BY 4NN]

My gay uncle who's rich and lives in Connecticut...

[abcdefz]

...usually say "My Uncle Ralph" when introducing the subject and then "Ralph" thereafter.

Except Ralph is dead. :(

-- and when speaking directly to the person, I'd say "Aunt Linda" or whatever.

[b-grrrlie]

I call them by name. From mum's side I had 8 aunts so it would've gotten a bit confusing at weddings and funerals...
But I didn't know what my parents were called until I was 8 or something, we always called them mum and dad. Why I find it really weird that my friends kids call their parents by their first name. I think that is weird.

[kaiser soze]

My gay uncle who's rich and lives in Connecticut...

funny, I have a gay aunt who lives in Connecticut

[B4BY 4NN]

funny, I have a gay aunt who lives in Connecticut

They're probably friends.

[DapperDiverge]

i don't know why they do this but... my mom's side is puerto rican and everytime my cousin would visit, she would refer to her aunt (my mom) as titi.... i was like, hey! why you callin' my mom a tity (as in a breast) ? but then my mom explained that it was a nickname for the word tia, which is spanish for aunt... and then i was like, ohhhhhh! never mind:rolleyes:

[voltanapricot]

I call them by their first name apart from the one auntie who had requested that I call her auntie. Her husband is "Uncle Nob'ead."

Everybody has an Uncle Nob'ead, that one uncle that bores/annoys/disgusts you.

I call them by name. From mum's side I had 8 aunts so it would've gotten a bit confusing at weddings and funerals...


Yeah I have loaaads of great aunties and uncles on the Irish side so I tend not to bother with the 'Auntie' and 'Uncle'. This is probably because I don't see them/speak to them for long enough to use the terms though as though we have a real relationship as niece/auntie/uncle.

[kaiser soze]

I correct my nephew when he calls me by my first name, nicely of course.

[bigblu89]

I call them all Aunt or Uncle.

[Rock]

Hmmmm....i kind of don't like the formality of it all. I insist that my cousin's kids call me by my first name....and if my sister ever has kids i hope they do the same.

[na§tee]

oh, first name all the way. i don't think we've ever used aunt/uncle in our family. my mum is an only child, and my dad has 2 brothers and one sister, so plus their partners it's not too much to remember:
norman & marina.
george & cathy.
margaret & tim.

[ScarySquirrel]

It's Aunt or Uncle over here, man.

[Lindsey_1535]

auntie kimmy uncle davvveeeee also auntie cindy
i have a small fam

[ms.peachy]

I always use the Aunt or Uncle prefix, whther talking to them or about them. It would feel really weird to me to just call or refer to them by their first name.