Thread: Cockney rhyming slang etc

Re - 'Gordon Bennett' from LOVEMYRANGIE

Originally Posted by lardy

The origin of the expression is not entirely certain. It is probably a minced version of the blasphemous oath "(Oh) God!" (pronounced by Londoners to sound more like "gawd") ...this is lifted from the wiki being of the southern persuasion i think it would be derived from Gawd as we have a knack of lack of pronounciation especially if "t" appears halfway through a word water = wa-ar butter= bu-ar

General Gordon Bennett was the commander of the Australian 8th Division in Singapore in 1942. He became infamous for escaping and leaving his troops to be captured by the Japanese.
His troops and the public never forgave him for this and his name went down in history as an oath.


Deano

Originally Posted by DeanoH

Re - 'Gordon Bennett' from LOVEMYRANGIE






General Gordon Bennett was the commander of the Australian 8th Division in Singapore in 1942. He became infamous for escaping and leaving his troops to be captured by the Japanese.
His troops and the public never forgave him for this and his name went down in history as an oath.


Deano

There was a much earlier Gordon Bennett, a wealthy newspaper proprietor, and the sponsor of the Gordon Bennett Trophy races in the early days of motoring.