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[York]

You say tomayto I say tomaato - LOL I still think that fanny pack is one of the most hilarious North Americanism!

There's a scene in Friends where Phoebe's brother is getting a massage from one of Phoebe's colleagues. He reaches round, grabs her arse and she says - in this fantastic breathy accent - "He touched my fanny." (Emphasis on a long, drawn out "fanny".)

I was absolutely shocked when she said it; just could not believe they would say something like that on what is a family show. Then it sunk in: fanny is not pussy in America!

 

[Goldie Munro]

In the land of Oz it's a bum bag. Now how are they gonna take that?

Well I suppose when you put it that way - we call it a bum bag too in the UK - still sounds more polite than a fanny pack!

 

[Goldie Munro]

There's a scene in Friends where Phoebe's brother is getting a massage from one of Phoebe's colleagues. He reaches round, grabs her arse and she says - in this fantasic breathy accent - "He touched my fanny." (Emphasis on a long, drawn out "fanny".)

I was absolutely shocked when she said it; just could not believe they would say something like that on what is a family show. Then it sunk in: fanny is not pussy in America!

LOL It does cause such problems!

 

[Weird Harold]

Then it sunk in: fanny is not pussy in America!

The list of examples in newcomers' inbreifing for American Servicemen in England is a real laugh-riot.

The classic example is "If a woman asks you to 'Knock me up in the morning' it does NOT what you perverts think it does."

People think I'm being facetious when tell then that of all my overseas assigments, I had the biggest problem with the Language Barrier in England. Even when I explain they still think I'm joking, but I'm not -- everywhere else, I always KNEW when I didn't understand what was said, In England, it sounded the same but it meant something entirely different.

 

[tanyachrs]

Honestly, I always assumed that arse was a more polite, euphimistic way of saying ass and that, even in Britain, ass was the correct term if you weren't a child. Something new has been learned.

 

[MagicaPractica]

Also you see one or two people here who are evidently escaping a kind of narrow-minded prudishness that's not really prevalent (any longer) in Britain, but is still common in the smaller towns of the U.S.

A truer word was never spoken. I grew up here but I am often amazed by the puritanical hypocrisy I run into. Specifically thinking of things like John Ashcroft having the statues draped. I guess they distracted him.