Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 10:55:21 -0700

From: Peter McGraw pmcgraw[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CALVIN.LINFIELD.EDU

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



The immediate predecessor of the current executive director of the Oregon

Historical Society (who had a short but destructive tenure) once reported

in the society's newsletter about a discussion which had covered a wide

range of topics, describing it as a "wildly raging" discussion.



Peter McGraw

Linfield College

McMinnville, OR



On Wed, 10 Jul 1996, //www.usa.net/~ague 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.



Comments?



-- Jim