another explanation is that the name came from the hindi word for a yard (36 inches), "guz", (also spelled "guzz", at the time) which entered the oxford english dictionary, and royal navy usage, in the late 19th century, as sailors used to regularly abbreviate "the dockyard" to simply "the yard", leading to the slang use of the hindi word for the unit of measurement of the same name. the plymouth herald newspaper attempted to summarise the differing theories, but no firm conclusion was reached. charles causley referred to guz in one of his poems, "song of the dying gunner a.a.1", published in 1951.