The word 'nan' is technically correct and can be used in written English, although it may not be recognized by some spell checkers as it is a less common term.
'Nan' is a colloquial term for grandmother, and it can be used as a term of endearment or when referring to one's own grandmother. Example: "My nan always makes the best cookies when I visit her."
"My nan has had to lend us her funeral money.
My nan wouldn't allow anything to be wasted; even our old bits of soap were collected in a jar and re-formed into a larger piece of soap.
She once even made suntan lotion out of soap and vinegar – very unsafe... It's funny, but I'm exactly the same as my nan when it comes to soap and shampoo.
The name Hunan is formed from the Chinese words hu ("lake") and nan ("south"), meaning the land to the south of Dongting Lake.
One is enough, and I hope it is a girl, said expectant mother Yu Nan, 25. "It is very nice to be the only child; you don't need to share or grab things from others.
Similarly, Catherine Tate's Nan character had lost her appeal by the second time she appeared on Tate's sketch show, so giving her an award for a standalone show would be madness.
"Otherwise, we will need to hire a full-time worker just to answer their inquiries".Perng Fai-nan, governor of the Central Bank of China, is not about to make apologies for the bank's handling of what he terms "an emergency stage".
Production costs in America and Brazil, the world's biggest producers, which between them provide two-thirds of chicken exports, are 30% below those in Europe and China, according to Nan-Dirk Mulder of Rabobank.Trading chicken is far more complicated than merely plucking, freezing and dispatching the birds.
Henan, Wade-Giles romanization Ho-nan, conventional Honan, sheng (province) of north-central China.
At Nakhon Sawan, 140 miles north of Bangkok, the main river begins with the Ping-Nan confluence.
An executive of Guangzhou Pharmaceutical FC, Mr Yang and his club had agreed to pay 200,000 yuan to another club to throw a game in 2006, so Guangzhou could get promoted to the Chinese Super League.The rot of corruption went to the top: Nan Yong, then boss of the Chinese Football Association.
