Of Aunts, Uncles, Nieces and Nephews: A Truly Important (To me!) Poll

i am not allowed to answer (as English is not my native language, obviously) but.. I know in my family the Uncle name thing only works with.. Grandmothers! :) The rest is adressed by their first name alone

All my aunts and uncles get addressed as Uncle or Auntie. Except for some of the really bad ones, get the epithet "Wicked Uncle A..."

Cousins all go by their first names, tho.

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I would avoid directly addressing them, personally, because I'd feel a bit awkward about which was "right". But I'd almost certainly use the Aunt/Uncle, though it would feel slightly more optional with the ones I know better and who are closer to my age (but only now I'm an adult).

Cousins all go by their first names, tho.

It would be pretty weird if they didn't surely!

We just go by first names in my family. But my American nephews call me & mrs Poo auntie & uncle.

it’s always been Aunt/Uncle for this non-native speaker. however, i have made it a point of honor that my own Nieces/Nephews call me by my first name.

I've never addressed my aunt's or uncles by anything other than their first names. My mom might have said "Uncle Bri is comming over" so we knew she meant her brother and not our neighbor, but other than that they weren't really addressed formally. We were a fairly closely knit and informal bunch, though.

Fart jokes at the dinner table and all that.

i think when i was young it was a lot of 'aunt x' and 'uncle y' but now i just use their first names, except in a few instances where they go by a nickname (like aunt barbara has somehow dissolved into being 'b' over the years).

Yeah, same here. My mom is "Bea" or "Aunt Bea" to my cousins, aunt Stephanie is "Gonnie", etc. If I said "godammit, David!" to my grandpa it's just be passive lols. We don't do the formal stuff too heavily. It's better that way, I think.

I mean I'd rather my family feel like friends or peers I can talk to casually than have some feeling of constant awkward reverence, it's just too much. It doesn't mean there's no respect (because there is), but to a certain degree we can just be human around each other, and I like it that way.

How do your nieces & nephews refer to you? I've always called my aunts & uncles by their first name but I am "tia".

I don't have any, but my brother just got married, so maybe soon. "Uncle Nate" sounds cute, but they could call me "naynay" or anything short of "old fuckface" and I'd live.

I plan on being Auntie Kate until the end of time, simply because it sounds like some obscure verb.

I would only add the "auntie" prefix if I was trying to get something of them (eg cash or toys), like Cartman does when he says "mmmmmuuuuummmmm". Please not, I've not done this for many years.

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i address 'em as "aunt/uncle so-and-so"... but also, they all go by weird nicknames that were given to them by siblings or siblings-in-law, so i would say "uncle frookie" (made-up example) instead of Uncle Fremont or whatever is actually the frook's given name.

my parents don't have siblings so my aunts and uncles are really great-aunts and -uncles. because of the age (and generational?) difference, i wouldn't feel comfortable addressing them without "aunt" and "uncle" in front of their names.

i went to a funeral last year for a great-uncle, and the bulk of the attendees were second cousins and second cousins-once removed or whatever that i hadn't seen in nearly two decades...so that was weird!

my one aunt is really good at keeping in touch with weird branches of the family that my mom doesn't...it's kind of fascinating to hear the reports trickle down about distant relations that i didn't even know existed. seems though that everyone on that side (the irish side, read into that what you will) are/were all alcoholic and/or crazy. also, they seem to have planted themselves in northern nj nyc bedroom towns (like as in newark and its surroundings) and apparently never deigned to go elsewhere...with the exception of one person who wound up in northern california, but i don't even think i share blood with her.

i mean, why would you be adventurous enough to take the journey across the ocean at the turn of the century, but then never go further west? i don't get it. it echoes henry miller complaining about his ancestors who insisted upon living in frigid climates even after they arrived in "the new world"

like Cartman does when he says "mmmmmuuuuummmmm".

That's just not the word he's saying.