Re: I finished them!
Originally Posted by
Pixie Knuckles
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What's a mufti day? I'm thinking it might means wear what you like, or a dress down day, but does it stand for anything?
Oh I thought this was a widely used term, but maybe it's only popular in our part of the UK. It means a 'dress down' day, wear what you like. It is, I think, used by the military when in civilian clothing. I found this on wiki:
The word originates from the Arabic: Mufti (مفتي) meaning an Islamic scholar. It has been used by the British Army since 1816 and is thought to derive from the vaguely Eastern style dressing gowns and tasselled caps worn by off-duty officers in the early 19th century. Yule and Burnell's Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive (1886) notes that the word was "perhaps originally applied to the attire of dressing-gown, smoking-cap, and slippers, which was like the Oriental dress of the Mufti".[3]
Heavens, now I'm wondering how long it'll be before the usage is banned for being racist, or for deriving from a style of dress that was culturally appropriated