In American idiom "fanny" is completely acceptable slang for one's bottom.
In Australian slang it is an offensive term for the female private anatomy.

I was in a class -- I think it was at ASG -- when the instructor said "what
do you say? Should we take a break now?" and an American woman in the class
said "yeah, my fanny's getting tired" and the Australians in the room turned
and looked at her in horror.

Charles


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Subject: Re: Pronunciations (spun off of another thread)

Idioms are full of booby traps for those not native to the language. In
Israel the Hebrew word  שֵׁרוּת  meaning  service refers to a shared taxi;
the plural שֵׁרוּתִים refers to bathrooms.

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