[HPforGrownups] Re: British V American

[Mrs.) Lee Storm (God Is The Healing Force]

No: HPFGUIDX 102081

| From: annemehr
| Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 2:57 AM
 There is, and more than vaguely sexual -- but only in the US, not
| Britain. At the top of Scholastic OoP, p. 227, Fred and George are
| telling Harry and Hermione how tough OWL year is, and George says
| "Fred and I managed to keep our spirits up somehow." That sentence in
| the UK editions reads: "Fred and I managed to keep our peckers up
| somehow," which means the same thing, "peckers" meaning "hearts," but
| obviously Scholastic wasn't going to print that!

[Lee]:
Guess the same can be said for some US terms like "fanny" which is a
person's behind here, as well as being a name/nickname.  "Fanny Farmer"
was/is a shop/producer of wonderful candy.  However, the same word
apparently means something very different for the British.

"Randy" is another interesting word over there; here, the first thing I
think of is a name, as I have several friends named Randy.

Cheers,

Lee :-)

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