> "Lynch, Jonathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I have a friend who worked in the U.K. for a few months. When she first got > there, she wore her waist pack to work. This is a thing that wraps around > your hips and has a pouch for carrying stuff. One day she she had set it > down, and was looking for it. When she could not find it, she started asking > her colleagues if they had seen it. Specifically, she kept asking everyone if > they had seen her "fanny pack" - which is a perfectly acceptable term for a > waist pack in the United States. In the U.S., the term "fanny" is a mostly > non-offensive term for a person's bum. > > She just couldn't understand why the entire office was laughing at her. The > way she tells it, some of her office mates were practically on the floor, > laughing so hard they could not breathe. > > Well, apparently, the term "fanny" in the U.K. does not refer to the bum, it > refers to a woman's clitoris. After they were able to speak, they informed > her of exactly what she was saying, and she was so embarrassed she thought > she would just die.
Rather like my Australian colleague who didn't understand why her fellow teacher gaped when she asked him if he had a rubber. (in the US a rubber is a condom, in other English-speaking countries it's an eraser) - marty _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
