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03-12-2005, 11:05 AM

Blighty: Britain -- the home land

 

Java -- coffee

 

Knock me up -- (Brit) wake me up in the morning -- at that time each street in the towns of industrial England (at least where I lived) had a designated "knocker up" whose job it was to tap on the bedroom windows of working people with a long stick early in the workday mornings in order to awake them -- he was the alarm clock for the street. The term had common usage to mean "come by and get me" -- it caused some confusion when girls used it in conversation with GIs (Yanks).

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1940 SLANG - by Cadetat6 - 03-12-2005, 07:10 AM
1940 SLANG - by Cadetat6 - 03-12-2005, 07:27 AM
1940 SLANG - by Jimmydoorknobs - 03-12-2005, 08:14 AM
1940 SLANG - by colinhotham - 03-12-2005, 08:20 AM
1940 SLANG - by Cadetat6 - 03-12-2005, 09:51 AM
1940 SLANG - by James Pickering - 03-12-2005, 10:31 AM
1940 SLANG - by James Pickering - 03-12-2005, 10:33 AM
1940 SLANG - by James Pickering - 03-12-2005, 11:05 AM
1940 SLANG - by Walt's Daughter - 03-12-2005, 11:33 AM
1940 SLANG - by James Pickering - 03-12-2005, 12:28 PM
1940 SLANG - by Jimmydoorknobs - 03-12-2005, 12:34 PM
1940 SLANG - by Walt's Daughter - 03-12-2005, 12:48 PM
1940 SLANG - by Cadetat6 - 03-12-2005, 01:12 PM
1940 SLANG - by Walt's Daughter - 03-12-2005, 01:49 PM
1940 SLANG - by Cadetat6 - 03-12-2005, 02:46 PM
1940 SLANG - by James Pickering - 03-12-2005, 03:00 PM
1940 SLANG - by Jiggersfromsphilly - 03-12-2005, 03:02 PM
1940 SLANG - by Cadetat6 - 03-12-2005, 03:51 PM
1940 SLANG - by colinhotham - 03-12-2005, 03:58 PM
1940 SLANG - by Jimmydoorknobs - 03-12-2005, 04:15 PM
1940 SLANG - by texas38 - 03-12-2005, 11:00 PM
1940 SLANG - by Jimmydoorknobs - 03-12-2005, 11:07 PM
1940 SLANG - by Custermen - 03-13-2005, 01:30 AM
1940 SLANG - by Jiggersfromsphilly - 03-13-2005, 07:03 AM
1940 SLANG - by Jimmydoorknobs - 03-13-2005, 07:09 AM
1940 SLANG - by Cadetat6 - 03-13-2005, 08:59 AM
1940 SLANG - by Jimmydoorknobs - 03-13-2005, 09:38 AM
1940 SLANG - by Jiggersfromsphilly - 03-13-2005, 10:41 AM
1940 SLANG - by Jimmydoorknobs - 03-13-2005, 12:29 PM
1940 SLANG - by Cadetat6 - 03-13-2005, 03:12 PM
1940 SLANG - by Dogdaddy - 10-02-2006, 10:45 PM
1940 SLANG - by Walt's Daughter - 10-02-2006, 11:05 PM
1940 SLANG - by j3rdinf - 10-03-2006, 07:43 PM
1940 SLANG - by Walt's Daughter - 10-03-2006, 07:51 PM
1940 SLANG - by Sgtleo - 10-03-2006, 09:25 PM
1940 SLANG - by Walt's Daughter - 10-03-2006, 09:51 PM
1940 SLANG - by Sgtleo - 10-03-2006, 11:07 PM
1940 SLANG - by Walt's Daughter - 10-03-2006, 11:35 PM
1940 SLANG - by Sgtleo - 10-04-2006, 05:19 PM

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