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in reply to a message by Perrine
Fanny works fine in Scandinavia and Finland. It's a pity it doesn't work in English-speaking countries.
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Does the sea exist
Because of our longing?
My PNL
http://www.behindthename.com/pnl/3258/61573
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Yes, it works in France too. But the association is just too weird (in the US it just means butt but in the UK it is a slang term for a vagina). And English is a language pretty much everyone has to learn at some point. If it had that meaning in a very unknown language that would be different. I still think it is ok as a nickname as long as the birth certificate has a full version or middle name the child could use if she moved to an English speaking country. Stephanie nn Fanny is kind of cute.
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Yah, I would personally steer clear of any name that had a bad association in another popular language.
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I have actually read about a Swedish girl called Fanny who had to use her middle name when she moved abroad (to England, I think it was), because people took her name as an insult!
BTW, in Swedish we pronounce it like the English work "funny". I have a cousin Fanny, but I guess she could use one of her middle names if she moved to an English-speaking country.
BTW, in Swedish we pronounce it like the English work "funny". I have a cousin Fanny, but I guess she could use one of her middle names if she moved to an English-speaking country.
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