11 February 2015

numpty

numpty
[nuhmp-tee}
/ˈnʌmptɪ/
noun (pl) -ties
1. (Scot, informal) a stupid person
– He was quite the numpty.

Word Origin
– of unknown origin

Collins English Dictionary

Anagram

my punt

Today’s aphorism

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.

– Emily Bronte, from Jane Eyre

On this day

11 February 1847 – birth of Thomas Edison, U.S. inventor. Died 18 October 1931.

11 February 1916 – Emma Goldman arrested for campaigning for birth control in New York.

11 February 1945 – The Yalta Agreement is signed by Josef Stalin (USSR), Winston Churchill (UK), Franklin D. Roosevelt (USA), regarding the control of Germany once World War II finishes.

11 February 1979 – the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, is overthrown by the Iranian Revolution, and replaced by the Ayatollah Khomeini.