Talking Southern – Gumption

Talking Southern – Gumption

Your compiler’s desktop Webster’s Dictionary, a high school graduation gift he received back in 1981 and has used ever since, says this word – gumption — is of unknown origin.  Wikipedia, that great spoon-feeder of the intellectually indolent, says it’s a word that came into being in Scotland and the northerly districts of England in the 18th Century.  So who knows for certain? But your compiler remembers hearing it often while growing up in Geo…