hungarian and pink currency

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Mon Sep 25 08:10:28 UTC 2000


At 8:52 PM +0100 9/25/00, Lynne Murphy wrote:
>>BUM BAG, pg. 53, col. 3.  Americans call it "fanny pack."
>
>And the Brits are quite horrified/amused that the Americans call it that.
>

Not to mention the fact that we (as a rule) don't know why Cleland
would have written his novel about "Fanny Hill" (either that, or we
think we know but we get the geography wrong).

larry



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