"git"--That's the second time I've seen that recently. What is that, please, and how did it come into use?

Sorry, can't help you much, Jackie, even though it was my post, other than to explain that I regard it as a synonym of "idiot". It's not a word I use or hear much around here. My brain wants to prefix it with the adjective "daft" - it has a British TV comedy ring to it, I think.

I had cause to think of the word again today when reading Anu's AWADmail Issue 25 in which Bradley Perkins was quoted as writing: 'The reason I noticed it is that my mother has a peculiar habit, which she passed on to me, of alphabetizing the letters of words that she reads, as just a "mental fidget" ("aelmnt defgit").'

I couldn't work out whether the reference in the one sentence to his mother and something I would pronounce as "ailment deaf git" was deliberate or not.