Wednesday's learn and earn...

~WORD OF THE DAY~

doughty  \DOW-tee\ ~ adjective

DEFINITION: marked by fearless resolution : valiant

EXAMPLES: When little Liza saw the neighborhood bullies picking on one of the younger boys the doughty girl marched up to them and demanded that they stop at once.

"The white bass particularly proved to be doughty hard fighters, especially when we hooked doubles -- which happened time and time again." -- From an article by Dick Martin in the Bucyrus Telegraph Forum (Ohio), August 8, 2011

DID YOU KNOW? "Doughty" is a persevering Old English word. Its earliest form was "dyhtig," but early on the vowel changed and the word became "dohtig." That was probably due to influence from a related Old English word, "dohte," meaning "had worth." By the 13th century, the spelling "doughty" had begun to appear. The expected pronunciation would be \DAW-tee\, paralleling other similarly spelled old words like "bought" and "sought." But over the centuries, the spelling was sometimes confused with that of the now obsolete word "doubty," meaning "full of doubt," and thus, so it is conjectured, we have the pronunciation we use today.

~THE REBATE~

Just in time for your holiday baking Reynolds is offering a free cookie and Baking kit.  To qualify you will need to by one each of the Reynolds®  Parchment Paper, Reynolds® Baking Cups and Reynolds Wrap® Foil, then mail in the original, store-identified, cash register receipt(s) dated between 10/01/11 and 12/31/11 with date(s) and price(s) of items circled together with the completed Offer form, the UPC Symbol from each product package and a check or money order for $7.95 to cover shipping and handling.  I usually don't include rebates you need to pay shipping for but this was a great deal.

Have a great Wednesday everyone.

C.Q.