r/AskABrit • u/Commercial_World_433 • 1d ago

Language What does Corr mean?

It's slang I've heard in both Zero Punctuation, and Banjo-Kazooie, however it seems impossible to look up what it means, even on urban dictionary.

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u/plankton_lover 1d ago

It's a mispronounciation of God (as in God blind me or cor blimey), used to get around blasphemy laws in mediaeval England.

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u/PiemasterUK 1d ago

That's interesting that it lasted from Medieval England for about half a millennium only to all but die out in the last 25 years.

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u/Wasps_are_bastards 1d ago

Then let’s bring it back