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04 Mar 2017, 7:03 pm

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04 Mar 2017, 8:20 pm

Biscuitman wrote:
Forgot all about 'fanny' which here means front bottom but I believe in America means back bottom.

Hearing someone say 'fannypack' on an American TV programme here in the UK has kids in stitches


I live in America and call it waistpack because you wear it on your WAIST. I actually never heard of the word fanny to describe the front OR back until I started to investigate UK vs USA English. Then again, I don't really keep up with slang in general. Fannypack makes me think of a bag with an electric fan cooling the bottom, front or back.


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05 Mar 2017, 4:21 am

'normalcy' is the one that always makes my head hurt when i read it in a book by an American author. It looks wrong in every possible way.



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05 Mar 2017, 4:24 am

Also 'burglarized'.

Wtaf??? :lol: