A Word a day

As I mentioned in class, I find the "A Word a Day" e-mail subscription extremely useful and entertaining. Today's word was "obdurate," a fine word meaning "stubborn" or "resistant." I wondered if I'd ever used it in print. A quick keyword scan of my hard disk showed that I had—in a history of the Navajo Long Walk published in 2004. Time to dust it off for new deployment.

You can learn about "A Word a Day" and subscribe for free at http://wordsmith.org/awad/. Highly recommended.