Posted by JLabaree on April 13, 2005 at 13:58:58 from 207.5.234.19 user JLabaree.
In Reply to: Ransome and Knight Stuff. posted by John on April 12, 2005 at 23:30:41:
No need to worry about stealing the term "duffer" from AR. He did not coin it. Erskine Childers uses it in Riddle of the Sands (1903), and no doubt its origins are more ancient than that.