Talk:Numpty
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"Numpty" appeared as a made-up word entered in 2005 when students at the University of South Florida were assigned homework involving creating made-up words and posting dictionary articles about them to Wikipedia to promote their made-up meanings. In the discussion of the inadvertent vandalism (if those words can be used together), Apwoolrich entered this side comment:
- "May be coincidence but Numpty is a dialect term in the UK. I know a lady who was born in Northamptonshire who uses it regulary to describe someone who is a bit thick (as in dim witted)."
The note on the deletion of the talk page1 included this from Crazfulla: "This word is verified via the external link given. You could ask any scottish person as to it's origin." Gee. Wonder what the external link was?
If this is true there needs to be referenced information here; if not the empty entry needs to be removed. Even so the entry may need to be transwikied to Wiktionary.
1 Why delete the talk page without deleting the article page????
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Derek Walker —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.3.137.174 (talk) 02:10, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
