I suppose this is because London taxi-drivers tend to call their fares
'guv' or 'guv'nor'.
RR
> With apologies for the silliness, I can't resist passing this
> on. One of my undergraduates begins her final essay for this semester
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> a typo so felicitous that it makes me jealous: "The word 'sanctimony'
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> appeared in 1540, when Elyot wrote A Bloke Named the Governor."
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