Reply #156: I Disagree Because I Do [View All]

[Vogon_Glory]

I disagree about not knowing anyone who calls a grandparent's sibling an "aunt" or an "uncle" because I did. As a child, I called my paternal grandfather's brother Uncle Homer. Uncle Homer may have been technically been my great-uncle, but I called him "uncle" when addressing him. The same thing was true of my paternal grandmother's sisters, and there were a good many of them still around when I was a kiddo.

For that matter, when I was a small boy, I called some of my older cousins "aunt" and "uncle" even if they were only cousins. Of course they had forty years on me at the time. I only started calling them cousin so-and-so when I hit adolescence.