I found a nice page on the internet that listed differences between English and US English words and word usage...

They had picked up on this too, essentially, they link the more common usage of the word 'cunt' to a selection of trendy drama programmes in the 90s. Things like This Life and Queer As Folk, they broke the final barrier and started using the word quite a lot in their scripts and this attributed to a general lowering of its rudeness within the UK...

Can't find the link though - it has some funny ones in...

Like you guys have fanny bags... which is just hilarious...