Fanny is a woman's name and was immortalised by Jane Austen in Mansfield
Park. However it is certainly not common. A quick poll of the
staffroom got "I don't think anyone would use that name it's got
connotations."
However the abbreviation of Richard to Dick is quite common in UK and US
and "di
Now I am puzzled. Stephen Black claims the British also interpret "fanny" as
vagina. But isn't (wasn't) Fanny a relatively common British name? I actually
had an aunt with this as a nickname. She was Ukranian/first generation
American, and I always thought she adopted that nickname to blend in wit
An Austrilia girl created quite a stire in an American High School when she
asked to use the male student seating beside her if she could use his
rubber. Austrialia rubber means pencil eraser in American English.
American rubber means condom.
Ron Blue
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Sharon Carnahan went:
> Not funny.
I hadn't realized we were putting it to a vote. Mine's for "funny."
--David Epstein
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Not funny.
Stephen Black wrote:
> (No, this is not about an Ingmar Bergman film)
>
> Do people remember my urgent query about a possible vulgar
> connotation of the term "fanny"? Thanks to alert TIPSters, I can
> now summarize the results of my inquiry. 'Tis true. In Britain,
> Ireland, Australi
(No, this is not about an Ingmar Bergman film)
Do people remember my urgent query about a possible vulgar
connotation of the term "fanny"? Thanks to alert TIPSters, I can
now summarize the results of my inquiry. 'Tis true. In Britain,
Ireland, Australia, and the West Indies, "fanny" is a term use
