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Whats the origin of the ello, govnor line? - Movies TV Stack . . . The OED cites 'guv' and it's variants as entering the language in 1852 via Punch magazine This is when the word 'guv-ner' was popularized I originally thought Oliver Twist (1948) was the first movie to use the line " 'ello guv-nor " However I found an earlier movie Convict 99 Here's a link The morning governors start at 40:11, they end 40:16
Where does the phrase the bees knees originate from? In the same vein, a (Cockney) friend of mine habitually refers to an excellent example of something (a fine wine, quality musical instrument, whatever) as the guvnor, where younger people might be more likely to say it was boss
Origin of Its a fair cop - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Green’s Dictionary of Slang dates its usage from the late 19th century; fair in the sense of justifiable: [late 19C+] (orig UK Und ): a justifiable arrest; usu in the tongue-in-cheek phr it’s a fair cop guvnor, put the bracelets on any situation seen as fair and about which there is no complaint Wiktionary cites an early usage: 1891, Montagu Stephen Williams, Later Leaves: Being the
What does shyme mean? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Looking at it in context, it appears the author is deliberately misspelling words to capture features of the character Thomas Bilder's accent The wonderful paper "Nonstandard Language and the Cultural Stakes of Stoker's 'Dracula'" by Ferguson (2004) describes him as a "cockney" (p 241) As the table on Wikipedia shows, in Cockney the vowel in shame would be pronounced [æɪ~aɪ], much like
meaning - English Language Usage Stack Exchange In Season 3, episode 2 of the sitcom Modern Family, Phil uses the expression "Good governor" to express his incredulity when he realizes that his wife has an obsession about proving she is always r
Valid use of apostrophe for abbreviated words My understanding of the correct use of the apostrophe would be: the posessive form, e g ApostropheLover's obsession with the apostrophe a contraction: don't, it's, there's an abbreviation, my id'