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[Joe Bento]

Interestingly, the harmless meaning of keeping your pecker up (staying
happy, keeping courage, etc) is *before* the offensive slang meaning
in an American (Webster) dictionary as well.  (However, one might
place a relationship between happiness or courage and the slang
meaning - perverted mind, perhaps.)  

Joe

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Lisa" <seuferer at n...> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Sherry Gomes" 

> One difference did make me laugh.  In OotP when Fred and George are 
> blithely talking about how they managed to keep their spirits up 
> during their O.W.L.'s--the British version says "We managed to keep 
> our peckers up somehow."  Which of course has entirely DIFFERENT 
> connotations in the U.S., at least where I come from.  heh.  "pecker" 
> is a slang word around here for male genitalia.  *giggle*