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[–] 11 points 7 months ago*

Used to have a coworker who'd recently immigrated from the UK to the US. While we were working, I told him I was going to wear a fanny pack somewhere. The expression he gave me immediately told me something was wrong; he looked like I'd just said something really profane but didn't understand what, so I thought maybe he didn't know what a "fanny pack" was and only knew "fanny" as euphemistic slang for a butt. It took a solid minute at least before we figured out this was a false friend.

It was on that day that he learned what "fanny pack" means (and what "fanny" means in the US and Canada) and that I learned that "fanny" is all kinds of vulgar in the UK.

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