[timewitnesses] Re: Blighty

From: hmemor@YOUTH.NET
Date: Tue May 08 2001 - 09:46:43 PDT


   From: philip.thompson@homes.org.uk

I was wondering about this myself and found in my own Oxford 
dictionary that "Blighty" is a corruption of Hindi word 'bilati' 
meaning English or European.  Also a "Blighty one" is a wound ensuring 
return to B.



Regards



Philip Thompson 

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