"Movotti;c-17172147" wrote:
Fanny is a dirty word in most English speaking countries. It's a nickname for female genitals.
Suffice to say, when that nanny was thrown out on her fanny, we were quite shocked.
It still amuses me that Fanny was a common given name for women in the 18th and 19th centuries, usually as a nickname for Frances. It even appeared in the Enid Blyton series The Faraway Tree back in the 1940s, which I vaguely remember encountering back in the 90s, but apparently the character has since been renamed to Frannie in the modern editions. I'm planning to use the name in my Victorian save, partly because it fits and partly because I'm evil and it amuses me. I already gave that family a son with a historically appropriate name the site won't allow me to write (begins with D).
