The most recent Talking Southern post was on gumption, that wonderful old Southern-sounding word which describes someone with ...

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 -- i ...

An individualized approach to gaining gumption Everyone knows they usually have little to lose by trying something audacious: Sure, their effort may fail but they can survive that.

→Winners and losers in the great Chinese rebalancing →Trillion-dollar boo-boo →Freedom to fudge →A basket of sliders →More data, less gumption →Faking the buck →Sun, wind and drain ...

“Gumption Traps I have Known” is the narrator’s soliloquy on some of the events or attitudes that cause him to lose motivation while fixing his motorcycle. Here is a version of “Gumption Traps I have ...