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Indeed dear fellow, it truly is
most civilised.
Now if only one could obtain free GPRS in the rather spiffing UK, one would be most pleased. What what?
[ This Message was edited by: tbl on 2004-02-26 14:29 ]
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Posted: 2004-02-26 15:28:11
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Huzzah to that! A little bit of civilitas on the part of the networks here in Blighty would go along way to stopping the feeling of being held up as the bill arrives each month.
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Posted: 2004-02-26 15:51:22
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why do the british call the UK Blighty in the first place?
i wish i could pay that little for gprs
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Posted: 2004-02-26 16:01:41
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I get unlimited GPRS access for 2US$ per month here in India.
This message was posted from a WAP device
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Posted: 2004-02-26 16:11:10
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An appz that uses Voice over IP.. would be great!
But bandwidth sucks for voip.
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Posted: 2004-02-26 16:15:07
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As in "When we get back to Blighty" or "Back in Blighty" or "When this madness is over we'll all meet up in Blighty" etc. Pet name for Britain. Huzzah!
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[ This Message was edited by: scotsboyuk on 2004-02-26 15:17 ]
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Posted: 2004-02-26 16:17:31
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It’s a relic of British India. It comes from a Hindi word bilayati, foreign, which is related to the Arabic wilayat, a kingdom or province. Sir Henry Yule and Arthur C Burnell explained in their Anglo-Indian dictionary, Hobson-Jobson, published in 1886, that the word was used in the names of several kinds of exotic foreign things, especially those that the British had brought into the country, such as the tomato (bilayati baingan) and especially to soda-water, which was commonly called bilayati pani, or foreign water.
Blighty was the inevitable British soldier’s corruption of it. But it only came into common use as a term for Britain at the beginning of the First World War in France about 1915. It turns up in popular songs There’s a ship that’s bound for Blighty, We wish we were in Blighty, and Take me back to dear old Blighty, put me on the train for London town, and in Wilfred Owen’s poems, as well as many other places.
In modern Australian usage, Old has been added, as in Old Country and Old Dart, as a sentimental reference to Britain.
From WorldWideWords
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Posted: 2004-02-26 16:29:02
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Good Old Blighty!
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Posted: 2004-02-26 16:34:29
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Ahhhh.... I seeeeee Thanks for the info
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Posted: 2004-02-26 16:38:29
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Orange give Unlimited GPRS for £45 per month!!...Its quite expensive but given the Unlimited Access 24/7 will appeal to some users!!
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[ This Message was edited by: axxxr on 2004-02-26 16:00 ]
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Posted: 2004-02-26 17:00:18
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