"BLIGHTY."

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11927, 9 February 1917, Page 1

"BLIGHTY."

A WOH.D OF LONG i I iV>y RCTA. in the '■ YiaWx TVlr-rraph/'. I If '> neee.-warv t'i n.-iiiornhfr, ;-.s | one .has pointed ,>iw. when ivo quote* •7'i'r-!. .vfuKiiv-;- ;n -ffjj. fpieMJon. What's Hi :; name;" :];;<; S]|»k"speare puts It mro rho. jrtoutb of a jrjrl of fourteen yo.-:i-.v H> frm.-u- vrry v.-e!i that thero '- .'i zvc:it de;d in ;i narno. «ud that | .-o/iio nrouk ,'inriuony between a nanio j and ilio porson. plaeo. or thing sign/-1 bod ;> immensely offeet:ve. Tt h said | ; tint Dickons >u*!:<-rwl tortures in ehoos- [ nig names for his characters, ;tnd For- ! s.'er has told n.-i ■ih-si Mariiu Chuzzle- I uit iras' t:r.;i!ty rvoh-.-d fhrnnjili a course I i:ni)si>iin:; nt >vcrzi("ido?i, Sweezieback, . ChuKzloUio, Cinizz'cboy. Chuzdevig ' find C'hiibb!rv.-ig. rmr w?, A Cliuzzleu-i't, i solmed imtd alter more hesitation and \ discussion, Words may bo much mora i iban a iiiorr vocabulary: "ye know • not," wrote Asrhiim long age, "what* burl, yo do io ioaruing-. that caro not \ iorvrords but tor matter, and so make • ;; bet ween .he tongue and the j bearf." li' a tiaiiH- at. its best possesses ' in. itsidf ft. of some .subtle ; riiarfin.en.'.fUiOii, sonio accordance of | found imd .-r«'n=e. benv h it that \ " iiiigitty' ! hiis found such rapid and 1 complete lairrency amount our sol- ; dioiv; snmuiarly moan and unboautifid ; as it. is. t<> eve nnd ear alike? Soldiers; i:tie sitt-lt a itiio. spontaneous sense of ! Itnu-ss in ;:clopt.it3j>- •pJmcse.i ana sobri-

<.!!i'ts <hat it would he interesting to; el ;.t the real inwardness of tjio appeal . (i i " uh'-ciiiy." Is it that ,-t poor, ex-' , word h:!-> been ehocen for • ' !'.-l (, bar-, ! 'lOHli'ht:•:, iijO dec]; 1*0;' iCiT.-i. : -■' id so is carried o!i lightly in {.his: v■ t.-rd of einotionle» s«.'}''(> wlii'i' lies -o oear vim iuvtrt: J : know* now- what ■ l)ii'. r ii;.y " mean-., though at first it,

was .•! matter of wild 'i/ie-Miicr. Nobody : 1:011 Id iia.ro supposed 00 the t'oco of ir. > : thiit. it stood lor Krojand. Thr- yvocior.r r;h~ja> ■ ■'*. ;;> a ri'vrr ?•';?. Tins bli-.-strfi niot. this '.'iir.h, :h:<: realm. ' Tlii* \nn'i_ cf vh ;io, ; : this a.-'sr. •ics::>:K!. Id->.■'„-.!>, bourel .:: ••'.•;:.!.: th; U horn: hint ' =e.w " Ko.rJand •• ~ a v , or ,j ,l, rtl . lir. S ,i-=, :i p--ioi.> v. ord: ao: rdeikospoJiiv'.:, im-- ' i. ;i-i i.;:-. :.,,', !.. -,; dubia-d " loi^j:'v. 'II"' ;."!'.( ];:< = Jo lis. 'as, ' " >-■''■' l >i (ii:.-.;.ni1;.. "dust «. oioured ") ! omii.' :<• ti- i:mn India. Mm, " jtogiuy" '■ ■'■'>'■ i.:id j! If.ii;;-iid .-lo oi;;-i v(I hUioiy. Oriii v. ;:■, :-.pch " wdiyai." and | .'• i'.-:iii '■ ?...'..-/i). :.:iV. ;:;) Indian , .-.■iiouir. the Xi.-v A. dYevmlH; Cape: ' and now i; is <-iii>nj,vd about, and as. ' liUvd'i'.y ;; it means " Kn:dai;d." with ■; tho. connotation of " home." How- ha-, i iiii:- call-ioroauinn f'onie about '? ! U ln i-.eil known that the question : !! t ' 'J' d''! Hat -o;l oi It Word 1«. Oit0!i; •■' '■: ' ; atld iil;pO c i\ sides; ■'h'l.'ii '.lit- vi<-:o:-y. The evolution of j 'ldem.v. however, iconic tolerably j plum and direol, as, lih-ci by the ;d>oYa | < '• About A.l). odd an Arab ] J.ireo i:ivi:d<( A:Lriu>ni>..tun and took! K;i ; od. .\;,,<,;<_L the words u.-.orl by ; liir-o Mjoo.'-Kifi.ii Mohjirojuodriu ?i:.;t; - .a'.i3- j ; '■('■- i!'.- ',\'"!i| ' wiliyai,' (ieiiw o i rem ! ill, Aiv.!>::;■ ' w;uj ' <to be Qiiistcri, and j loeiiniuv; ' puoi-s.-.inc: ;md ooinrojUau.' j v.:,:-. ,ii .n'.jocni ov(.. l-'or coultirios. > ' :<.: i.,'\or; of lino-, tiie-ra j wen- inv;:Moiis of hidu-i by those uiz~ \ pov-plo itnd i.ludf dosi-enddncs. j KIK'C aft.';- Kii)- 7 ; 0.-ijiie. ;;nd ■••I' i'lo UiO;,,- Moiiniod. who fjii-(L : ! t '«i:-:y-.six ycisr.s before | ■lie l eoi;pK-:'".r Juii-t'd iit v;id»'d loai;;. .-.(.n-enveon lim-:-:-. and I !<>u:_de. :or iwe:ity-hv« yoai>. Thou j ci'ee a "'liMisi, light down inm iadia, j ■ aod .". kin;j; osi;ddidr:d hi> capital at f IX-iii:." Mho will-to-powcr e)' thoie f old n;ar;.ouei> ]e<i them r.o cust a;i over-! i/ovrlous eye upon hinds which mi^liiv 1 - lie ;\i:)ie>.ed to iiieir crowing empire;* iiiivi '" wiliy.it : ■-" iind 111Iiuy "-■ -:)e(;amo SNiojiiynic'-i- the j iden of ;■< ioriMtcu t-oviniry. n-, who! should say, " Here i* Xahoth's vino- | Vitrd, !<•. u> posstss ii-": line, ' ; \. di-| yul "•' took on the. concrete of ; :i >.: .m'.l aiien laud ;iJid_ J'n.'ople. : when coh<;i:erors and co.nquoi'fid ' had le'iwd io <lv.'i-ii together in : /md o!vl ii-uu;-> were forgotten, tho word'. by a fun her a-sociat.<.n of ideas, * ci't.ie in -.lenity "union" ;dso. j "Wihyat." a'' coumry ; ' in i the iim:ua franca, of Jiidito, easily Ihv : c-.-.UiC ;i ienn for " EraliUKi." and from : it " Wiiiyati." more vulc'itriy u Bilati.'* wit)) sitinowduiT. various secondaryj a\u\<\i'< of meaniryu-. Now m its cori rupced form. " Blip;ht.y,' : it- has parsed into another sphere. Alter aecHunitisaiioiv ia i's Indian home, it- has ilung : i itself across two continents, und finds, j a new setting in Eagli.sli speech, an 3-. ; may remain as one of the fantastia' I additions to .he l:ingua;ro niado by tha< j ;n-eat war. Starting 1200 years ager 1 from the Arabian Desert, it made iW ' way across Afghanistan, over the- ; fliinaiayas into the bazaars of India}: ! was ]>icked up in barracks by British' soldiers, wdtose pronunciation madealmrfc w(irk of it; was flung scaddanl/,and buL yesterday into the tronchea of*? tho war-riven fields of France; and byits latest swift currency has /passed" familiarly to Australia and Now Zea- 1 land and Canada and other lands ua-' dreamed of when " Wiliyai- : ' firs-, inspired die composts o; certain bord.pa''' K o! : swarthy Arabiau*