Worthless to me; without any interest. The
“rap” in question was a base halfpenny that was worth only half a farthing
and was circulating in Ireland in the early eighteenth century because small
coins at that time were very scarce. Jonathan Swift described it in Drapier’s
Letters (1724): “Copper halfpence or farthings . . . have been for some time
very scarce and many counterfeits passed about under the name of raps.”
Consequently the name was adopted for anything of little value and was so
used by the early nineteenth century. W. H. Ainsworth wrote (Rookwood,
1834), “For the mare-with-three-legs [i.e., the gallows] I care not a rap.”
The Fexco 2024 concludes by breaking records in visits and economic
activity.
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The International Fair and Exhibition of Cochabamba (Fexco) concluded
yesterday after 11 days of constant and intense activity. Preliminary
figures indi...
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