graduation and respect for British culture

[wildirishrose01us]

No: HPFGUIDX 188392



Incidentally, ignoring British culture can even mean you use words which are possibly offensive in British English.  For example "fanny", as in fanny-pack, does not refer to a person's "behind" as in US English, but a woman's vagina, thus the equivalent term for "fanny-pack" is "bum-bag", "bum" being roughly the British equivalent to the American "fanny".
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> Brian (brigrove on fanfiction.net)

Marianne writes:

About 4 years ago I was with friends in Dublin.  I'd walked out the place where we were staying when I said, out loud, Oh wait.  I forgot my fannypack.

My friend was horrified.  I'll never forget the look on her face.  I didn't give her time to say anything.  I went back in, put it on came back out said let's go.  She said that's a fanny pack, I said yes. When she explained to me what it meant in the British culture it was my turn to be horrified that I'd said such a thing outloud in a public place.