AIBU to be surprised that a boy in my 6 year old DD's class........

[ThoughtsPlease]

told her that her shortened name, which she likes to be called, is only 1 letter away from a name for a girl's bottom! I am not sure exactly what term he used, but my DD said this. She then went on to say that she didn't know what name he meant.

It is true, when you shorten her name this is the case, I have no problem with this, I don't really mind that someone has said this to her obviously I knew at some point someone would, but I am surprised that it was from a peer when she was just 6.

Her name is Francesca, and she likes to be called Frannie.

AIBU to be surprised by this from a 6 year old boy?

[MamaChubbyLegs]

When I was little, it was either "minnie" or "bits and pieces" (wtf mum?). "Fanny" was a bit ruder than minnie. Fanny is one of my favourite words! It's much better than:

"Lady garden" fuckoff my DP says this :(
"Front bottom" - just makes fannies sound dirty, and they're not.
"Foof"

I knew a lady from the carribean who's polite version was "pussy" and I had a friend who called it her "Dinah"

[ComposHat]

iamadoozer I knoew it would be that sketch before I even clicked on it. I love the way he drops his bottle of juice and they are stood there until nightfall.

Roaring at not knowing what name was one letter away from cunt

I was thiniking CLINT written in capitals.

It reminds me of my favourite showbiz stories. The actress Diana Dors, whose real name was Diana Fluck, returned to her home town of Swindon to open her local church fete. Upon discovering her real name, the vicar was extremely nervous about mispronouncing her name when he announced her.

?Ladies and gentlemen, it is with great pleasure that I introduce to you our star guest. We all love her, especially as she is our local girl. I therefore feel it right to introduce her by her real name; Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome the very lovely Miss Diana Clunt.?

[Justfornowitwilldo]

It is a little milder than pussy but on those lines.

[LondonBus]

Now, I would class fanny with wee, poo, bum, willy and knickers.

All of those words would have my mother all a dither, though.

[LondonBus]

Pussy, however, is very rude!

[BegoniaBampot]

When and where I grew up fanny was rude. Sort of on a par wit pussy and beaver and just a little less offensive than cunt. Your mum would have given you a slap for saying fanny. All the local boys used to love shouting 'show us yer fanny' or beaver. Ah, memories.

[MrRected]

A fanny is not a girls bottom. Or are we still calling vagina/vulva a front bottom?

Feel for you OP - your DD will encounter more of this as she gets old, I am sure. FWIW - I love the name Francesca and the nn Frannie (very cute).

She'll just need to learn to roll with it and shrug it off. My DD calls her vagina a fanny - so my boys hear it all the time. It's not considered rude, it's just what it is.

[LittleFeileFooFoo]

When I was less than 6 I asked my neighbor "since his name was Dick, could we also call him Penis?"
So no, I'm not surprised a kid would figure this out.

[honeytea]

I grew up in Devon in the 80s/90s.

My best friends mum called me fanny-Anne as a term of endearment, my name sounds nothing like fanny or Anne.

Maybe noting happens in Devon that makes you angry enough to say cunt.

[hobnobsaremyfavourite]

I live opposite Fanny Street.
That is not a lie :) Lord somebody a hundred and fifty years ago had a daughter called Fanny and named a street after her.

[hobnobsaremyfavourite]

A friend who worked as a carer was told by a white haired, sweet, frail 90 year old in the Welsh valleys when she was helping her to the toilet that she had a
"sore twat"
my friend was a tad shocked :).

[barnet]

We use fanny as the girl's equivalent of willy

[MidniteScribbler]

I had a six year-old come up to me today and say "Mrs Euphemia, listen to this song I made up. Chinese, Japanese, look at these." (He pulled out his jumper to indicate breasts.)

We used to have that in primary school except it was "Chinese, Japanese, Punch your knees (where you would hit yourself on the legs), What are these?"

The alternative was "Chinese, Japanese, Punch your knees, money please" and putting your hand out asking for money from your parents.

I never did understand the hitting yourself in the leg part.

Ahhhh, childhood.

[MisguidedAngel]

Anybody heard "quim" used for female genitalia? I heard it once many years ago, and recently in a book by Barbara Trapido. My children used the correct anatomical terms thus shocking nearly everyone we knew.

[jendot]

Fanny is fine here, like saying willy. I would not be surprised or offended in any way if a child said it. We are in the south easet. We live in a 'naice' area if that makes a difference?

[Kikithecat]

My MIL calls it her 'petite soeur'.

[BegoniaBampot]

Well just beware where you say fanny then. It definitely isn't acceptable everywhere and is just a step down form cunt where I come from.

[bulletwithbutterflywings]

Fanny is on a par with knob/ dick. I hate the word. (Not cos I'm a prude, its just a gross word)
I wouldn't like my child to use it.

[SpanishFly]

West of Scotland - fanny is absolutely an insult and it'd be very very shocking to hear a 6yo say it. "Ya fucking fanny" is generally the way it's said here.
Ive got 2 boys so have no idea what girls call theirs in general but my friend's dd calls hers her flower That same friend was shocked to hear my then 5yo say his penis was a bit sore. "He calls it a penis?!!!!" Um yes, thats what it's called.

[BegoniaBampot]

My 6y r old was very fond of vagina at one pont and liked to say it loudly at times. They also have been known to shout 'mum, my penis is sore' in the supermarket. It does sound weird and I suspect they're already winding me up.

[melika]

Will for boys, under carriage for girls in my house!

[xylem8]

In this area fanny is ruder than willy but a long way short of twat.Probably on a par with dick or cock.

[NUFC69]

I find all this fascinating. I am a GM (65) and the only swear word I use is the occasional "bloody". Tbh, it would never, ever have occurred to me that fanny was a rude word; like PPs have said, it is on a par with willy. The amount of swearing on here shocked me at first, now I just ignore it - so to hear fanny described as "crude" just seems amazing. I can't remember when I first heard the word "ct" - but probably only in the last twenty years or so. I don't think I ever heard my DF or DM swear. The world has gone mad when fanny is verboten (sp?) and yet the F and C words are normal!

[NUFC69]

Oh, and it had never occurred to me that the word twat was rude, either! Obviously changing worlds ....

(Interesting that I can't type the F and C words, but have no problem with twat!).

[TheYamiOfYawn]

I think of fanny as being roughly the equivalent of willy - I would feel a bit uncomfortable saying it because it sounds childish rather than because it is rude. I had no idea there was such a big regional difference in the way it is used.