> > This is too funny to me - in Australia, what we refer to as a "fanny" is in > fact only found only on a lady and is the FRONT rather than the BACK of > them, iykwim?
That's the UK usage, too. Gave me quite a shock the first time I read some US piece of fiction that described somebody who, on being introduced to his friend's wife, patted her affectionately on the fanny. Time can be as great a divide as space, too. The other day I re-read an Agatha Christie story which was set at a country house party (gosh!). One of the guests, being bored, apparently spent the afternoon lazily making love to his hostess in the conservatory.
