Today’s WOTD – 28 August 2012

gumption   

[guhmp-shuhn]
noun Informal
1. initiative; aggressiveness; resourcefulness. For example: ‘With his gumption he’ll make a success of himself’.
2. courage; spunk; guts. For example: ‘It takes gumption to quit a high-paying job’.
3. common sense; shrewdness.

Today’s aphorism

‘Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little’.

Edmunde Burke

On this day

Nothing exciting happened on this day … except for:

28 August 1837 – Worcestershire Sauce manufactured by John Lea and William Perrins.