Do I have enough confidence in my ability to rate how confident  other people are? Confidence is another one of those slippery words as a noun. The adjective appearing to relate to it, as used in our prompt, appears less slippery but isn’t. When we name a person confident we usually mean, so much so that … More Do I have enough confidence  in my ability to rate how confident  other people are?

‘Confidence ‘ is a word that must seem to have the most straightforward of etymologies, where notions of faith and trust derive straight from the Latin (and we are told Old French) to engineer the fact that it as about belief and trust. In brief, you can do things WITH (con-) FAITH (-fides)  in another … More Meet the confidence man!?!