<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 27 November 2013 13:28, Chris Angelico <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rosuav@gmail.com" target="_blank">rosuav@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Mark Lawrence <<a href="mailto:breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk">breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 26/11/2013 23:06, TheRandomPast . wrote:<br>
</div><div class="im">>> I'm stumped.<br>
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> Good to see another cricketer on the list :)<br>
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</div>May I be bowled enough to suggest that "stumped" doesn't necessarily<br>
imply a background in cricket?<br>
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*dives for cover*<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Surely that should have been "drives for cover" ;) I guess I'll play on ...</div><div><br></div><div>Before I go look it up, I'm guessing that the etymology of "stumped" is actually coming from the problem of a plough getting stuck on a stump (i.e. can't progress any further). Not much of an issue anymore since the invention of the stump-jump plough: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stump-jump_plough">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stump-jump_plough</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>(Looked it up, my guess is considered the most likely origin of the term).<br></div><div><br></div><div>Tim Delaney</div></div></div></div>