English Usage US vs. UK

[Darat]

It's often used as a name to raise a laugh, the same way as say the name "Dick" is, but "Fanny" used to be quite a common name in the UK (usually as a pet-name for a woman called Frances or even Florance apparently).

 

[zooterkin]

It's often used as a name to raise a laugh, the same way as say the name "Dick" is, but "Fanny" used to be quite a common name in the UK (usually as a pet-name for a woman called Frances or even Florance apparently).

Indeed, as in the phrase "sweet Fanny Adams". At the all-boy grammar school I went to (many years ago), female teachers were referred to, among the boys, as 'Fanny', e.g. "Fanny Smith"; I don't know the origin of this (i.e. whether it was the obvious one or something else), or whether it was common at other schools.

 

[Giraffe107]

Of course, sweet F.A. means something different now.

 

[Fiona]

It can cause some problems from uk english to american english also. On another board I once caused quite a lengthy silence by using the phrase, of another poster, "She could get a piece at anybody's door".

 

[Professor Yaffle]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTxD49qBDvs

 

[TX50]

Scots law still occasionaly refers to yetts in lieu of gates or doors, so no.

Maybe because "gate" in Scots actually means "road".

 

[TX50]

We also call it "The Pictures" in the UK, as in "We're going to the Pictures".
However, unlike Americans, we never call a film a Picture.

In some parts of Britain we do. A film is usually called "a picture" in
N.E. Scotland, for example. A cinema is also called "a picture house"
(pronounced something like "a piksher hoose")

 

[negativ]

The use of "roger" as a verb never fails to make me giggle. There's a local law firm aptly called "Roger & Dunham" (read: Done 'Em). I no longer try to explain to people why their TV commercials tend to make me snicker.

 

[wahrheit]

The use of "roger" as a verb never fails to make me giggle. There's a local law firm aptly called "Roger & Dunham" (read: Done 'Em). I no longer try to explain to people why their TV commercials tend to make me snicker.

Before you can roger someone, you need clearance, Clarence. And a vector, Victor. Oveur.