To think that "fanny" is not an offensive name for female genitalia ?

[gonenative]

My ex was taken aside by our 3.5 yr old daughter's nursery key worker today, and told that they didn't like her using the word fanny, and that she should use the word noony instead?!

Is there a difference in offensiveness levels between these 2 names? Always thought that fanny was just a harmless kids name for vagina/vulva whatever, am I wrong?

Noony, as in nuni/nani as in from the word punany/punani which is a Jamaican thing (I think, as DH and his jamaican friends use it) and as far as I know is not considered ok for polite company.

Nursery is deluded.

Nowt wrong with fanny, at least everyone knows what one is! WTF is a noony?

For some reason that I can't remember we were calling it "puss" when DD1 was little. One SIL said why do we have to call it anything !!! What's wrong with "front bottom"!!! Other suggested "fanny"!

I don't understand why anyone would wrongly allow their dd to call it their vagina. In case a little education is in order: the vagina is the internal part. You either mean the vulva or labia and to say otherwise just means your misinforming your dd's about which bit is where.

Kind of important. If your dd went to the doctor because of a problem you'd want her to be specific wouldn't you? Or is vagina just the name all for the whole shebang.

And fanny is a crude word for it in Scotland but better than saying vagina as it is more anatomically correct.

Bugbear done now.

Gusset is one of my teeth on wool words where I get an inner shudder (even when I type it - combined with moist just EUGH) but areola I think is a lovely word.

Crotch is also a horrible word. But then I also hate the word fruit.

But yoni is my winner for vaginal/vulvic (?) euphemisms because of its lovely meanings - sanskrit word for divine passage/place of birth/place of rest. Lingam (the not so aurally attractive male equivalent in Sanksrit) just reminds me of beardy tantric sex men (specifically Nighty Night).

I don't think that Noony is from a Jamaican word, because it was used in Liverpool, as was Mary and we didn't have a Jamacian population.

It was just about finding a 'soft' sounding word that a child could use and adults didn't.

I don't really give a shit what you call it.
I just think it's grossly unacceptable to say boys have a willy, .... and girls don't!

Ruby that's how I've heard it pronounced it too...'nunni'

In Denmark they call it the Mound of Venus, which sounds much more exotic!

mumnosbest I did twig that when I discussed with people in RL but this was when he was a baby and wasn't talking yet and he moved up to the toddler room when he was speaking so I just couldn't see it was going to be an issue and it wasn't.

I hadn't heard of yoni before! I like that :)

bewitched - that's why I really really don't like 'front bottom' ffs

AIBU to consider calling my non-existent daughter Areola? I think because it sounds a bit like Ariel I think of it as a lovely diaphanous floaty type of name

Wheezo exactly, it's awful isn't it?

But that SIL would never say fuck either. About anything.

Ok maybe its just the way I've heard it pronounced amongst the people I mix with, google was saying something about it being a shortening of an indian word that became a jamaican word or whatever, I don't know.

However, I know my DH wouldn't be happy if DDs started saying nuni. They say fanny, most people I know say fanny or vag (usually older).

I personally call it my 'yum yum' although only in situations where this doesn't cause confusion like when chatting to friends in greggs.

Vulva makes me feel sick.

I was for weeks when Cbeebies launched Tree Fu Tom - I thought the cowgirl character was called Areola.
Turns out that she is in fact called Ariela .

In fact fuck what I've said, I would tell the nursery you and DD will call it what you bloody well like.

Noony is no worse than Fanny.

Birdsgottafly - so mary was used in Liverpool too? I kind of always assumed that it was an Irish thing. Well, that, or that my Mother was a bit bonkers!

Wheezo, gusset also makes me shudder. Urgh. Crotch is equally awful, what's even worse is 'crotchfruit' which I have heard people use to refer to a child, and is utterly, utterly vile.

Have never heard 'yoni', but now that you have explained it's meaning, I actually kind of like it.

Yoni's cool if you're Indian but it's a bit try hard if you're not.
Find it a bit hard to understand that "yum yum" is OK but vulva isn't!

Glad you're all (mostly) with me on this one.

It was the word we used in my family when I was growing up so I have never thought twice about using it with my kids. I can't say it's a name that I particularly like but can't see that noony or nunni or whatever is any better. Front bottom is confusing, fou-fou is twee and irritating, vagina is anatomically incorrect and vulva just seems a rather clinical word for a toddler to be uttering to me.

I actually feel quite cross about the whole ridiculous thing now, and on that basis, I am going to instruct my daughter to call it her vaj from on and to talk about it at nursery often and at great length....

Shadows - there's quite an irish community in liverpool isn't there? One of my friends has irish parents but born in liverpool and talks as if there's quite a big Irish roots community - I expect it is irish and just travelled across to liverpool with everyone

bewitched - yoni - possibly try hard - have never had occasion to use it but just like it from a distance (?) - but when I learnt of its existence it did make me wonder whether words like noony/punani could be traced back to the sanskrit in the same way that a lot of words can be attributed to having roots in sanskrit as the (or one of the along with original persian etc) mother of all languages.

Fanny is better than noony. Much better and perfectly acceptable IMHO

We use 'girlie bits' for vagina, don't know why really. Vagina is probably better.
We use 'bits and bobs' for willys, although that's a bit daft too. I clearly did not give the subject much thought when the kids were little.

Perhaps she should give it a Proper Name. Valerie the Vulva perhaps?

Wheezo, ah, now that makes sense. Always just assumed it was some weird Euphrates my Mother came up with, tbh! Perhaps she is less weird than I thought .

Euphrates?? FFS. Euphemism, I mean. Fecking autocorrect!