June's OT Board Dictionary Launched (was Brittspeak)

[ellejir]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Tim Regan" 
<tim_regan82 at h...> wrote:
> 
> You're all forgetting my favourite: "fanny". In England it is a
> mild(ish) slang for vagina, while in the states it's your behind.
> Soon after I moved to the USA, our charming and elderly next door
> neighbour said that he'd been tempted to shoot deer in the fanny to
> get them to move out of his yard. I was mortified.
> 

Yeah, well, *that* will teach those deer to move, now won't it?!

Does anyone in England use the name "Fanny" as a nickname for 
Frances?  It is not very common anymore in the US due to the obvious 
hazard for teasing on the grade-school playground, but it would seem 
to be an even riskier nickname in the UK based on what you just said. 

Elle (who doesn't like deer eating up her garden either, and would 
have *loved* to see Tim's face when his neighbor made that 
suggestion!)