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***** Brice

LOL her first name got *'d out -- I forgot that ***** means something really really unmentionable in the UK!

I will just put F Brice, Ziegfield star of Broadway.

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- E Brice.
 
SaskiaKC said:
***** Brice
LOL her first name got *'d out -- I forgot that ***** means something really really unmentionable in the UK!
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Well actually it is a common abbreviation of Frances and not so long ago we had a very well known English restaurant critic and popular television cook, F*nny Craddock - who must be turning in her grave!
And we have a saying "Sweet F*nny Adams" often abbreviated to "Sweet FA" - meaning "nothing".

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It really infuriates me that some popular and well known abbreviations for common British christian names have in the eyes of many forums suddenly been deemed offensive.:banghead:
 
Thank you for telling me that, @Robbity . I never knew that about F^nny Adams. I used to think Sweet FA meant Sweet F@¢* All. I remember some time ago another thread *'d out a perfectly innocent 'fowl' word for which we had to substitute 'rooster.' Silly really.
 
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