Why is blighty called that

I stumbled on it while looking for the derivation of Old Dart , since I am a Brit living in Australia and had no idea why the locals referred to England so.

Can you help please? A No worries. Old Blighty historically just Blighty is an affectionate way of referring to Britain, still common among expatriates. Its antecedents were summed up as well as we could wish in a famous book that recorded words in use among Anglo-Indians:. Bilayut , Billait. But it only came into common use as a term for Britain at the beginning of the First World War in France about Time Traveler for Blighty The first known use of Blighty was circa See more words from the same year.

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Everywhere we looked there were crowds of them; we thought there were a lot in Blighty , but there seemed to be nothing else here. Shortly after this we had several casualties in Platoon 10—two or three were killed, and several wounded and got their " Blighty.

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