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   From: g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies   
      
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     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.   
      
   When I was a kid¹ I knew a girl named Fanny. I thought her name was   
   probably really Frances, but she said her given name was Fanny.   
      
   I thought it was odd at the time.   
      
   ¹ This would have been in the mid 70s in Denver, Colorado   
      
   --   
   And she was drifting through the backyard   
   And she was taking off her dress   
   And she was moving very slowly   
   Rising up above the earth   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)