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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.
Brightonian - pronounced Bri-tonian, Jugs (archaic), [17] Las Gayvas (after Las Vegas; there are other nicknames alluding to the city's large gay community which are homophobic and offensive) Brill Brillbillies Bristol Bristolians, Brizzlies, Wurzels, Piss-tools (pejorative) [18] Britain
This article lists a number of common generic forms in place names in the British Isles, their meanings and some examples of their use.The study of place names is called toponymy; for a more detailed examination of this subject in relation to British and Irish place names, refer to Toponymy in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
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 ...
This is a list of places named Bristol, which includes items such as population centres, islands and geographical features. There are thirty-five populated places in the world named Bristol, [ 1 ] the vast majority of which are in the United States.
He refers to Great Britain as the island called "Britannia", noting that its former name was "Albion". The list also includes the island of Thule, most often identified as Iceland—although some express the view that it may have been the Faroe Islands —the coast of Norway or Denmark , or possibly Shetland . [ 41 ]
"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 .
Bristol's city centre also suffered severe damage, especially in November and December 1940, when the Broadmead area was flattened, and Hitler claimed to have destroyed the city. [112] The original central area, near the bridge and castle, is still a park featuring two bombed out churches and some fragments of the castle.