Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 11:18:10 PDT

From: Duane Campbell dcamp[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]EPIX.NET

Subject: Re: "Wildly" vs. "Widely"



--- On Wed, 10 Jul 1996 08:31:31 PDT "//www.usa.net/~ague"

ague[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]REDRCK.ENET.DEC.COM wrote:



Today's newspaper had a caption on a photo saying that the "water pressure

from

fire hydrants varies wildly." Unless the editor had some sort of pun

intended,

I would have expected "widely" to be used.



i would assume that if it varied "widely" it would move methodically from very

high pressure to very low pressure. If it varied "wildly" it jumped

erratically from one pressure to another.



If this is the worst problem you have with your newspaper, consider yourself

lucky. In my local daily yesterday they forgot the entire comics page, and

according to today's header it is Saturday, July 10th. The calendar they gave

out last winter had 31 days in June.





Duane Campbell

dcamp[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]epix.net



In the beginning the Earth was without form and void.

Why didn't they leave well enough alone?