This is Awful

[Vermilion]

And now I know why a couple of stories I read didn't make sense.

MJL

<chuckles>
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[TheeGoatPig]

Aussies use "fanny" in the UK sense too.
One of my favourite movie titles is "Free Willy". I still want to meet the bloke that came up with that one

Everyone thinks Free Willy is a stupidly obvious name.

Out of the mouths of babes oft comes porn. (LOL)

I've read some UK authors stories on this site where 'fanny' was used instead of 'pussy'.

Talk about a speed bump in your reading. I knew what they meant, but it still seemed the focus had shifted to anal play.

I think it was George Bernard Shaw who remarked that the U.S. and England were two countries separated by a common language.

I have read so many stories and forum posts from so many englishmen that I don't even slow down when I get to their regional discrepencies. I immediately acknolage it as an englishism, but it doesn't slow me down.

 

[starrkers]

I'm tri-lingual. I read English and American just as easily as Australian

 

[Boxlicker101]

I don't know what it is about that word, but it always seems to make Brits go very quiet...

I dated an American for four years and didn't come across any words that go the other way. I live in hope, though

I believe that in British, "Keep a stiff pecker" means "keep a stiff upper lip", or keep your spirits up. In American, it's an erection. Long ago, I lived in a place with a lot of other young people and one morning a very sweet, pretty young woman from England told me I should have knocked her up that morning. She meant I should have knocked on her door to wake her up. I realized she didn't mean that I should have impregnated her, which it would have meant in American.

 

[Rad'l]

UK vs US 'english'

And omg - such an awful word in itself. I snigger every time the americans say fanny-pack! I wonder if we have any words that go the other way? reasonably innocent over here, but really puerile and rude across the ocean?
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Yes we do!!! I was at a conference here in the States when one of the people from UK asked our secretary if she had a 'rubber'. She went straight up in the air, red-faced, and mad as a wet hen. The poor engineer wanted an eraser and she heard 'condom'. I tried to help but was laughing far to heartily (at both of their expressions) to help at all.