Full English Breakfast with **Brown Sauce**

Carol justcarol67 at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 27 19:40:31 UTC 2008


Carol earlier:
> | It's "funny" to a child in the same way that "Uranus" is funny.
"Butt" means rump or posterior or whatever "nice" word you prefer to
use for the part of the anatomy that you sit on. At least, it has that
meaning in American English, and we're talking about American children
here.
> 
> [Lee]:
> Well, don' know about that as Ron used that kind of syntax in OOTP.

Carol:
Ron made the "Uranus" joke, but I'm talking about "butt[y]." (I only
mentioned the Uranus joke as an analogous example, thinking,
naturally, of Ron.) I just realized that "bum" might be the best word
to convey the meaning of "butt" to British readers, except that it
doesn't have the slightly off-color connotation that "butt" has for
american children. (Maybe not for gifted and talented sixth-graders,
but if fourteen-year-olds find "Uranus" funny, and they do,
twelve-year-olds might find "butty" funny.)

Carol, hoping that her meaning is clearer this time around





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