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   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Wed, 20 Nov 2013 11:26:17 -0800, Paul S. Person   
    wrote:   
      
   >Some years back there was a discussion here on the British meaning of   
   >"fanny", and how using it as a name was considered a bit off-color in   
   >Britain. This was specifically in regard to Fanny Brice, IIRC.   
   >   
   >In my endless traverse of Durant's /The Story of Civilization/, I have   
   >encountered a note of a female author in the time of Johnson (yes,   
   >/that/ Johnson) named "Fanny Burney", apparently by her father.   
   >   
   >Since it hardly seems likely that a father would name a daughter   
   >"Fanny" if the word actually had, at the time, the meaning alleged, it   
   >would appear that the meaning alleged developed some time later, after   
   >the 18th Century.   
      
   It's probably a 20th-century usage, since Fanny was a common abbreviation for   
   Frances well into the 19th ncentury.   
      
      
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