June's OT Board Dictionary Launched (was Brittspeak)

[junediamanti]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Tim Regan" 
<tim_regan82 at h...> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter wrote:
> > Does anyone in England use the name "Fanny" as a nickname for 
> > Frances? 
> 
> They could, but I never met any (though I do know several Frances 
> who don't shorten their name to Fanny). It's certainly not in the 
UK 
> top ten that for 2002 baby girls, that was:
> 
> Chloe Emily Megan Emma Jessica Sophie Sarah Charlotte Hannah 
Olivia 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dumbledad.

Fanny was a common diminutive for Frances - certainly in the 
1930's.  Read Nancy Mitford's "Love in a Cold Climate" and "The 
Pursuit of Love" the main narrator is a thinly disguised version of 
Nancy herself called the Honourable Frances Logan, known to all and 
sundry as Fanny.  

Fanny Burney the 19th century author.
Fanny Price in Mansfield Park.

Not anymore.  And no wonder.

June