Lol.
What would we do without our common language misunderstandings?
I always crack up when Americans use the term fanny!
Twits!
I spent 1.5 years in England fifteen years ago, in the East Anglia region. I spent lots of time in Cambridge and London as well. Churchill said that the British and Americans were one people separated by a common tongue, but I was disappointed by my lack of adventures with our common tongue.
Everybody I met were easily understandable, with only a few exceptions, even in Scotland.
Fill me in. I take "fanny" to be a baby word for arse. (Pardon my French.) How do use it, or like the French purportedly treat ketchup, do you not use it at all?
It's not a word I ever use; I sorta tolerate it. I grew up in Noo Yawk where the equivalent term is "tush", apparently a Hebrew/Yiddish loan word.