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Oithy speaker tense going round pub A-H--I-T

Aphorist fits and goes round public house, but why tense ?

Sorry. That should have been 'Pithy' not Oithy

grammar aorist definition:
a tense of the verb in classical Greek and in certain other inflected languages, indicating past action without reference to whether the action involved was momentary or continuous

definition from here:

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/aorist

18d: aphorist = pithy speaker (def)
aorist- denoting past tense of a verb (esp Greek) which does not contain any reference to duration or completion of the action.
PH- pub