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  • I have decided that when I become a grandmother (that seems very far in the future yet as my son is 27 and in no hurry to marry!) that I would like to be called by the Italian word "Nonna".

    mamie - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • I have decided that when I become a grandmother that seems very far in the future yet as my son is 27 and in no hurry to marry! that I would like to be called by the Italian word "Nonna".

    mamie - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • Ms. Russo creates a fictional frame for the true events that befell her mother in wartime Italy: The tale begins with a child asking her grandmother, whom she calls Nonna, about the various charms—a piano, a piglet, a tiny ocean liner—dangling from the bracelet she always wears.

    Turn, Turn, Turn Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011

  • She'll also make her debut in Boise on Saturday with pasta sauces under the name Nonna's LLC.

    IdahoStatesman.com News Updates 2009

  • She'll also make her debut in Boise on Saturday with pasta sauces under the name Nonna's LLC.

    IdahoStatesman.com News Updates 2009

  • Failing the real thing I was delighted with a packet of truffle infused taglierini that I acquired last week - Cara Nonna were the makers.

    Toast and the Truffled Eggs Lindy 2007

  • By the end of the conversation, his grandmother had instructed Anne Marie to call her Nonna, and Marco was standing with his arms crossed, his expression pained.

    That’s Amore Carol Grace 2003

  • I am "Nonna" or Grandma Nonna which, my very wise 8 year old granddaughter realized a year ago was actually saying Grandma Grandma!

    mamie - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • I am "Nonna" or Grandma Nonna which, my very wise 8 year old granddaughter realized a year ago was actually saying Grandma Grandma!

    mamie - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • Zonana vividly recalls collecting stamps with her grandfather in Brazil, picking up her grandmother "Nonna" at the airport in New York at a young age, and watching her father pray every single morning in their Brooklyn apartment.

    WN.com - Articles related to Arab stocks slide on Greek debt worries, falling oil prices 2010

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