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OH, NO!! :O
Stymie is a verbed noun!!!
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What's the point of living
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Really!! Next thing folks are going to start leaving the -ce off the end of their adverbs and no-one will be able to understand a word anyone is saying!
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...similar is "stalemate," which underwent the same transformation.
Which came first, n. or v.? And how long ago? Chess has been around 400-plus years.
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From this chess history site http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/7378/oldtexts.htmAround 1000 the first European text on chess appeared. This was the Versus de Schachis in the Einsiedeln, Switzerland manuscript. It was a 99-line Latin poem on chess. It described a chess board in two colors.
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In 1474 William Caxton (142201491) published the Game and Playe of the Chesse in English. It was translated from Jehen de Vignay's French version of the Innocent Morality. It was the 3rd book printed in English, after the Bible and The Recuell of the Historyes of Troye, and the first English book published in England. It was the first printed book in English to make extensive use of woodcuts for pictures.
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In 1614 Arthur Saul published Famous game of Chesse-play. It classified different kinds of mate, including stalemate and scholar's mate, and fool's mate.
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So the noun came did first after all. ("Before" all?) As with "stymie."
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