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Blighty is commonly used as a term of endearment by the expatriate British community or those on holiday to refer to home. In Hobson-Jobson, an 1886 historical dictionary of Anglo-Indian words, Henry Yule and Arthur Coke Burnell explained that the word came to be used in British India for several things the British had brought into the country, such as the tomato and soda water.
The English variation of Vilayat is Blighty. Malayalis of Kerala use the term Sayyippu or Vellakkaran to refer to a male westerner. In Assam (which became part of British India in 1828), the British are called Boga Bongal (literally meaning 'white foreigners' or 'white intruders').
Blighty (or Old Blighty) Britain, home. Used especially by British troops serving abroad or expatriates. [44] [45] A relic of British India, probably from the Hindi billayati, meaning a foreign land. [46] blim A very small piece of Hashish. Also used as slang with the word bus (Blimbus) for the shortest British coach bodies of the 1960s to ...
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, [m] is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England , Scotland , Wales , and Northern Ireland .
Britain has leapfrogged Germany, China and India to become the second most attractive country for investment behind America for the first time in PwC’s annual UK CEO survey.
"Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty" is a music hall song written by Arthur J. Mills, Fred Godfrey and Bennett Scott in 1916. It was popular during the First World War , and tells a story of three fictional soldiers on the Western Front suffering from homesickness and their longing to return to " Blighty " - a slang term for Britain .
The book's publishers promised $1.5m (£1.18m) and £300,000 would be given to the Sentebale and WellChild charities. Meghan wrote a children's book called The Bench in 2021.
UK big businesses pay the most when compared to western EU members, according to government figures. In 2023 large industrial companies paid 93 per cent more than the average of these countries ...