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A.Word.A.Day--Benedict Arnold Benedict Arnold (BEN-i-dikt AR-nuhld) noun A traitor. [After Benedict Arnold (1741-1801), American general in the Revolutionary war, who planned to surrender West Point to the British (1780) for 20,000 pounds.] "Autoimmune hepatitis is an attack by the immune system on its own liver, mistaking it as a Benedict Arnold traitor. Why it does so is an unanswered question." Dr. Paul Donohue, Panic Attack's Roots Are in Mind and Body, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Mar 19, 1998. This week's theme: eponyms. X-Bonus Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion. -Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910)

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