Men's magazines: an A–Z - Blighty". Magforum.com. Archived from the original on 11 November 2013 . Retrieved 20 March 2014. The term subsequently gained an ironic connotation in its closeness to the English word “blight” meaning epidemic. It’s an example of typical post imperial British self effacement. Some consonants can take the function of the vowel in unstressed syllables. Where necessary, a syllabic marker diacritic is used, hence /ˈpɛd(ə)l/ but /ˈpɛdl̩i/. Vowels

British singer Kevin Coyne also released a version on his 1978 album Dynamite Daze, with piano accompaniment by Tim Rice. [4] [5] Use in other media [ edit ]Blighty" is a British English slang term for Great Britain, or often specifically England. [1] [2] [3] Though it was used throughout the 1800s in the Indian subcontinent to mean an English or British visitor, it was first used during the Boer War in the specific meaning of homeland for the English or British, [4] [1] and it was not until World War I that use of the term became widespread. [4] Etymology [ edit ] it was effervescent Dorothy Ward, wife of Music Hall star and songwriter Shaun Glenville, who introduced it. In a newspaper article, Miss Ward This article is about the slang term for Britain. For other uses, see Blighty (disambiguation). A World War I example of trench art: a shell case engraved with a picture of two wounded Tommies nearing the White Cliffs of Dover with the inscription "Blighty!" song’s association with the First World War is almost iconic. Noël Coward borrowed Blighty for his sprawling 1931 stage production Cavalcade, about British life in the first two decades of the twentieth century. In the Academy Award–winning 1933 film version, however, Coward dropped Blighty in favour of another Godfrey song, Take Recordings by Florrie Forde [3] and Ella Retford are the most commonly heard versions, though Dorothy Ward first sang it.

Blighty" in the Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014; and in Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, 2010. Accessed 27 February 2016. piano.” 5 Indeed, Godfrey sat in for a time as Dorothy Ward’s pianist on the stage (“Melodyland,” The Era, 20September 1916, p. 14), so he evidently was quite comfortable playing in public. Noël Coward used the song for his 1931 stage production Cavalcade, about British life in the first two decades of the twentieth century and in the 1944 film This Happy Breed. [ citation needed] It was also used in the 1954 Errol Flynn film Lilacs in the Spring. [ citation needed] 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.

L-Shaped Room (1962); Flyboys (2006). The song was also interpolated in the “screen comedy” The Better ’Ole, starring Syd Chaplin and Bruce Bairnsfather (La Scala Theatre, Coventry, December 1927), but on the assumption this is a silent film, perhaps flash cards are merely used to indicate its being sung..