what the heck do the british mean when they say cor blimey, or is it cor limey?
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As everyone says, yes it's a derivation of 'God Blind Me'. There are a huge number of Cockney phrases, most based on Cockney Rhyming Slang, that are in popular use in the UK. For example 'let's have a butchers' - meaning let's have a look, from rhyming slang 'butcher's hook'. Phrases like barnet, for hair (Barnet Fair), bread as in money (bread and honey) are still used - albeit usually knowingly as a nod to the past. There are some good sites for cockney rhyming slang, including a fun translator, see links below. Have a, um, butchers...
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In many languages, at least in the vernacular, the word "English" is often interchangeable with "British".\n\nAnd the British confuse the issue with so many countries and names for them. We refer to Britain when we mean United Kingdom for instance. (For those who don't know, Great Britain includes England, Scotland and Wales, while the U.K. includes those three as well as Northern Ireland.)
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It is Cockney 'Back slang' for boy.   This slang was also known as Butcher's Slang and I can confess that it took me nearly 40 years to find out how it originated.   You see the Butcher used to write his different meats and prices on the shop window with white wash.  It might show 'Rib of Beef  £2 per lb'.  If a shopper asked for a Rib of Beef, the butcher would look at the window from the inside and see the writing in reverse.  He would call out to his assistant 'Feeb fo bir' and so on.  The reverse slang continued to gain in order that especially young people could talk about things that the older generation would not understand.  If you asked for the price of something and it was Four pounds, the shopkeeper would say 'a rouf'.   Incidentally, one of the most interesting back slang phrases comes from the US.  It was a New York Irish emigrant family called the Muldoons.  When they did a burglary they would reverse their name in back slang and write it on the walls or windows. Noodlum.   This soon became Hoodlums with criminals becoming known as Hoods.  Sorry for going on but I could not Pots..........................
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from Brits...it means the darling of the group or the favourite of a person.I hope this helps u.
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Sorry I don't have an answer, I just couldn't resist to post and ask musiu_2001 to get a clue. It's spelled exactly as it should be in Engrish. "All your base are belong to us" or "AYBABTU" is an Internet phrase used since 2001. Use Google and educate yourself.
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Yes its true. They say it without the 'r' but it sounds like they said it with the 'r'. Its more common with Yorkshiremen and Australians, I think.
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Eric Partridge lists it in his 'Dictionary of Slang', 1937. He gives it the meaning 'all will be well', which is not quite how it is used now. Partridge states it as dating from circa 1890, although he presents no evidence for that. Also he suggests that it may be derived from the phrase 'all is bob', which meant 'all is well'.\n\nAnother interpretation is that it derives from the supposed nepotism of Lord Salisbury. Piers Brendon, in Eminent Edwardians, 1979, writes:\n\n"... in 1887, Balfour was unexpectedly promoted to the vital front line post of Chief Secretary for Ireland by his uncle Robert, Lord Salisbury."\n\nVarious authors have surmised that having an uncle Bob who was Prime Minister became synonymous with having a passport to an easy life.
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They r called Geordies, and not Jordies. \n In any city or region that has a long history, its people attains a distinct identity. There are the cockneys of London; the Liverpudlians (Scousers) of Liverpool and the Mancunians (Mancs) of Manchester. And so it is with the North-East of England, but its a little more complicated than that.\nGeordie' is used to refer to the inhabitants of an area stretching from Carlisle to Durham.
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cheeky\n\nadj : offensively bold; "a brash newcomer disputed the age-old rules for admission to the club"; "a nervy thing to say" [syn: brash, nervy]
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"Cair Paravel" means "a lesser court" (Old English: "caer" means "court" and "paravail" means "lesser" or "under".) In other words, the kings of Narnia are under Aslan.
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What the T-shirt means is "I'm not Irish but I talk so much nonsense you would never guess". Blarney is a village near Cork City, Ireland, and the castle there is the ancient home of the McCarthy's of Cork. The word Blarney is reputed to have come into the English from Queen Elizabeth I, who reprimanded the Taidgh McCarthy for his flattery by calling all his excuses "blarney talk".\n\nIt's used in a sentence like "that's a whole load of blarney", "you're full of blarney", "enough of your blarney".
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It's from the Welsh language word for 'red' - 'Coch'.....
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Britannicus et superbus\n\nI was unable to find a word in Latin that specifically means English; this means British and proud.
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It's 'Magpie' according to the New Exeter Statue. Not sure about the letters, though. Must be 'magpie' in Middle English.
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English...the Bahamas were once a british colony.
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2 reasons:\n\n1. In many former colonies, 'English is used to dfine the imperial British empire, while 'British' is used to define the current, friendly 'United Kingdom'. THis can get especially funny here in America, where britian is both our greatest ally and the people we shot at to become a country.\n\n2. Before and during the change from 'Britian' to the 'United Kingdom' it was considered 'polictally correct' to refer to oneself as 'British', an inisuation that the old ethnities (irish, Welsh, Brition, Scottish, etc.) were no longer important, but that everyone belong to the unitied kingdom's 'british' ethnicithy. This backfired in the scottish and irish cultures and the use of the term 'English' is often seen as assoiciating oneself with the old, imperial empire.\n\nAmericians have a simliar issue with the term 'conferate' or 'southern dixie'.
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Hmm, there really isn't a difference between being British and English, in fact anyone who's English is actually both. Saying that you are English implies that you live in England whereas saying that you're British could mean that you're English, Scottish, Welsh or Irish (though I doubt anyone from Scotland or Wales would use British over Scottish or Welsh). \n\nPaki is actually a somewhat offensive term used in England to describe people from Pakistan and can be compared to the word 'N ig g e r' used in the USA (though it is nowhere near as bad and doesn't have the history behind it either). \n\nGeezer is slang for describing anyone really (usually a man though) and is used quite alot where I'm from (Manchester).\nPoof is used in place of Gay, and can be a little offensive but its not really that bad, simialr to saying 'he's a fruit' in the USA.\n\nAs for some other slang words, Muppet is used down south alot and roughly means idiot, Pillock is similar but more ofensive, Wanker is quite rude (i'm pretty sure you don't need me to explain that one), Chav/Scally describes young people who wear hoodies and cause alot of trouble, Random is a word used in Birmingham and the midlands and means nothing at all, they just throw it into any sentance, Tosser is again a rude word similar to wanker, Boff is pretty much the same as Geek, Manc (pronounced mank) is short for Mancunian i.e. people from manchester and slag/slapper is the same as 's l u t' in USA. Sorry that most of those were insults but we English like to make as many varied insults as possible :-). \n\nBy the way, If the film you watched was trainspotting or snatch then I think you'll need a slang dictionary to understand all the coloquial terms in them.