[Mrs Ivan]

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?

Lol, it is a slang term for the female genitalia - when I hear things like "He touched my fanny" "she needs a good kick in the fanny" or even simply "fannypack" I cannot help giggling - before I learned that it meant bum I was utterly baffled.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Now I know why Inspector Barneby never says "fanny".

Thanks.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

In America, bum, unless pronounced with a very heavy British accent, means "hobo", "tramp".