Daft Apeth - provenance query?

otk

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• May 22, 2013

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With the other Daft threads, it got me thinking where does Daft Apeth come from? Is it a reference to our ape ancestors, or perhaps, Daft Ha'penny?

I daresay someone on NSC will come up trumps

 

Last edited: May 22, 2013

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soistes

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• May 22, 2013

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It's short for daft ha'penny worth

 

Box of Frogs

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• May 22, 2013

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One of my late Nan's favourite sayings.

According to the urban dictionary:

Daft Apeth

A Northern (specifically lancastrian) term for a fool, roughly equivalent to the modern term 'muppet'

not really and insult, almost a term of endearment

Pronounced like 'a-peth' (longish A)

Origin: Shortening of a daft 'alfpenny.

 

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soistes

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• May 22, 2013

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as in
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ha'porth

 

otk

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• May 22, 2013

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Thanks for the succinct and informative replies

 

Norman Potting

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• May 22, 2013

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...Once people used to flick through dictionaries so that they could snigger at the rude words. Now we have t'interweb. Are we sure that this is what Mr Berner Lee had in mine