To correct the teacher. (Light-hearted)

[Wallywobbles]

My kids are at school in France and as part of their vocabulary test in English this week they have had to learn the word cunny.

The teacher insists that this means the same as cunning despite one of my kids pointing out that it means vagina. She did it one to one to not cause any embarrassment. But it would seem the teacher has taken a fairly hard line on this.

Would I be unreasonable to send her an email politely pointing out that teaching kids a slang word for vagina is perhaps not a great idea.

😂😂😂 send the email, how could they get it so wrong?

😂

Yep, send that email

God no! You must send the email.

The teacher may be thinking of canny?

Did she mean 'canny' ??

She might already have realised by now if she checked afterwards. You could see uf she corrects it herself. I probably wouldn't say anything so i didn't annoy her!

I've never heard that expression, obviously lead a sheltered life.

It certainly isn't any English word I've come across before.

Is it possible it's meant to be canny? Although that doesn't mean cunning either unless you're using a very loose interpretation.

Ah see others have come up with the canny explanation as well.

you need to tell her. Perhaps a link to a site confirming this (urban dictionary?)

I don’t know the word cunny...

cunny
[ˈkʌni]

NOUN
vulgar slang
a woman's genitals.
women in general, considered sexually.

I’ve never heard that before! I just text dp ‘I’ve got a pain in my cunny!’ He replied ‘in your what?!’ Is it a regional thing?

Oh boy! I would tell her!

If she's not open to correction from a native speaker, then she has decided to stop learning which is never a good idea.

I wouldn't bother correcting her, if your child telling her didn't make her look it up, then there's really no point, and you probably have other fish to fry.
I'm amazed your kids knew what it meant, I wouldn't have done when I was at school, I think I have only ever seen it in literature, maybe something like Tipping the Velvet or similar.

Omg you have to correct her! I’ve definitely read a play or something where cunny is frequently used to mean vagina.

I'd tell her, those kids could get into awkward situations in future!

You can imagine the kids going on their school trip to the UK going oh so and so's very cunny, in a French accent. Confirming the worst view of the Frogs.

Right email it is.

Teacher here - definitely correct her that’s hilarious 😂

Maybe she meant funny? (F above c on a keyboard and she might be trying to save face?)

The first time I heard cunny was in the movie Unforgiven, and I haven’t heard it since.

I’d immediately think ‘lingus’ if I did hear it randomly though, I’d email!

In collège French it means cunilingus too

Had a very sweet and embarrassed email back from the teacher this morning. She was aiming for cunning.

The Oxford Dictionary gives the sexual definition:

en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/cunny

Oh bless her - we’ve all made embarrassing typos before!