04-28-2018, 06:09 AM
(04-27-2018, 08:30 PM)Ofnuts Wrote:(04-27-2018, 08:02 PM)Blighty Wrote: Blighty was the name of my Grandfather's farm. But it already had that name when he bought it.
There is family oral history of the meaning of the word, this differs slightly from the meanings found on google.
NSFW?
No, not that at all.
The British army was in India. Blighty was a corruption of a word in one of the Indian languages meaning "home". But in the British army the usage changed to mean a wound serious enough to be sent back home to Britain. As in "You're going blighty".