What is en_US ?

[Tim]

On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 16:18 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Many words have completely different meanings. Ending changes about -ise
> and -ize are minor. Some words have enough context to avoid confusion,
> but words like "bill","check","boot", "gas" often do not. Other words can
> be offensive in one dialect and not in the other (Pity the ex-Red Hatter
> whose username was "wanger" for example, or things like 'git'). Some
> words even refer to entirely different locations (classic being 'the
> bathroom'). 

"Fanny" is one that always amuses me.  It's a woman's name that's not
heard very often, these days.  The Yanks use it as a nickname for your
bum.  The Poms and Aussies use it as a nickname for the female genitals.

Any American TV show that makes some crack (pun intended) about how
they're going to whip their oponents fannies always cracks us up.

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