AIBU to be baffled a mum had no idea the school fayre was happening?

[xAwaywiththefairiesx]

Today my daughter's primary school had a spring fayre after school on the school field. Ice cream van, face-painting, various stalls with games, the usual. All arranged by the PTA to raise money for the school.
There was a mufti day today, and the children were asked to bring a donation to the school as an exchange for the mufti, something like cakes to sell or a teddy for the tombola or a bottle of wine as a prize or something.
One mum wanders onto the field after school, with both of her kids in mufti, looking around bewildered saying "What's this? Is this a new thing they're doing? Will it be every week?"

And this is so weird to me because the spring fayre has been organised for months. We have lots of emails asking for donations, several more asking for volunteers, we've had at least three leaflets home about it, and she obviously got the memo about mufti, the whole point in which was for the school fayre!

My phone own child has been banging on about it for three weeks.

How can she get so unaware? I'm not judging, honestly, I'm just baffled how it got past her.

Is it just me? Could you miss something like this after all that communication?

Again, where I live, nobody has ever referred to it as “mufti day”. It’s always been non uniform day and people would look at you gone out if you said the word mufti to them! Probably even have a little giggle while the assume you’re talking about fannies.

I knew it as mufti. Always have known it. But people are getting distracted by this from your post.
Does it matter if people didnt know this word?Irrelevant or what!

Genuinely fascinating. Must be specific teachers who use it in specific schools and then that usage persists in those specific schools for a few more generations but not in other schools.

Someone's probably written a PhD on it somewhere!

No, "Fayre" has not been in use since the Middle Ages. It was in use in the Middle Ages, then it became "Fair" and therefore was no longer used for several centuries. It was only revived at some point for things like School Fairs and Village Fairs because some idiot thought it sounded traditional or quaint, or something equally stupid.

Because many people didn’t know what on earth the op was talking about when she wrote her first post. It does help when people understand the point of threads that have been written. It’s been an interesting discussion and I’ve now learned a new word that I never knew existed.

It isn't local. It's in novels, it's in sitcoms, radio shows, newspaper columns. They use it in the armed forces - if you're not in uniform, you're in mufti. Totally commonplace.

Fetes worse than death, we used to say.

Yeah, it’s definitely not regional. It’s probably just slipping out of use generally but if someone knows and uses the word at a school or wherever it gets some new currency.

Had to laugh at the pp who said “round here a muff is a fanny” or similar. For ‘muff’, “round here” would be anywhere in the English speaking world.

The meaning and understanding of ‘mufti’ is the most interesting thing about this thread. 👍

Stop saying fayre!

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You’re baffled that a woman has more to think about than one event!? Really??

Page 40? Come on, must be nearly there....

Aw dammit! Still 39!

If it’s that common, why have so many people questioned what it means or are saying they have never heard of it?

Every usage of fayre always reminds me of Susie the continuity announcer in Victoria Wood's old show saying snottily "I suppose they think if they spell it with a y more people will come"

It does grate on me too.

I did say where I live people would assume it meant fanny round here. I’m talking about my specific town. And yes, that’s exactly what we would assume it meant.

People don't read as much as they used to?

I think that's what that poster meant. That for "round here" you could say "anywhere in the English speaking world" because that meaning of muff is hugely widespread and absolutely not local to you.

Maybe it’s rare on TikTok.

So many people discussing mufti,that most of them didnt ask her original question.

I never said it was local to me. I said that’s what people in my town would assume it meant. Because we call it non uniform here, not mufti. If you said the word mufti, people would probably have a giggle about it. The word muff itself is slang and used pretty much by a lot of people all over the country. I never said muff is a regional word, just that people where I live would assume that mufti was the same as muff!

Many people have responded in depth to the op about her original question. Many people also questioned at the beginning of the thread what the word mufti meant because without context they wouldn’t know how to answer the thread

DAPPLED!!! I thought we were friends!!! 😜

I used this thread as impetus to get our upcoming one changed from "fayre"! 🤣.

Other than that you know I'm with you!

I'm totally going to aim for the very last word on this thread and it's going to be either Fayre or Mufti.

Fayre enough