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Artist Wins £20,000 Grant To Study Women's Butts

Posted by samzenpus on from the been-doing-a-lot-of-extra-credit-lately dept.

Sue Williams has been awarded a £20,000 grant by the Arts Council of Wales, to "explore cultural attitudes towards female buttocks." Sue plans to examine racial attitudes towards bottoms in Europe and Africa and create plaster casts of women's behinds to try to understand their place in contemporary culture. And here I've been studying the issue all these years for free like a sucker!

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  1. Guide to British English by Kupfernigk · · Score: 4, Informative
    • Butt - a garden water container
    • Bottom - the polite word for the buttocks
    • Front bottom - the excruciatingly twee expression for the female pubic region. Lower middle class and evangelical Christians only.
    • Bum - depending on context, the buttocks, anal region or pubic region.
    • Arse - ambiguous: can mean either the buttocks, the anal region or the rectum. Best avoided by foreigners
    • Fanny - ambiguous, can mean either the buttocks or the female sexual apparatus depending on context. Always has a sexual connotation, though.
    • C**t - ambiguous, can mean either the female sexual apparatus or someone you disapprove of. Not safe for foreigners.
    • Quant, quaint or queynt - old English word meaning female pubic region. Also used in hedge funds as a swear word.

    The British, by the way, imagine Japanese to be a language full of double meanings and potential minefields.

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