On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 16:18 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > Many words have completely different meanings. Ending changes about -ise > and -ize are minor. Some words have enough context to avoid confusion, > but words like "bill","check","boot", "gas" often do not. Other words can > be offensive in one dialect and not in the other (Pity the ex-Red Hatter > whose username was "wanger" for example, or things like 'git'). Some > words even refer to entirely different locations (classic being 'the > bathroom'). "Fanny" is one that always amuses me. It's a woman's name that's not heard very often, these days. The Yanks use it as a nickname for your bum. The Poms and Aussies use it as a nickname for the female genitals. Any American TV show that makes some crack (pun intended) about how they're going to whip their oponents fannies always cracks us up. -- (This box runs FC5, my others run FC4 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
