freely = (for) free?

Dennis R. Preston preston at PILOT.MSU.EDU
Wed Jul 16 12:27:19 UTC 2003


Do any of the rest of you have trouble with this "freely"? If it
means "at no cost," I don't think I can say it. If it means
"liberally," "scattered around" "without restraint," I can. But then
I'm an old flatland hillbilly.

dInIs





Peter

I will freely advertize your new book "The Norfolk Dialect" in The Vocabula
Review in exchange for a few copies of it.

Robert Hartwell Fiske
Editor and Publisher
The Vocabula Review
www.vocabula.com
--
Dennis R. Preston
Professor of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics & Germanic, Slavic,
      Asian & African Languages
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1027
e-mail: preston at msu.edu
phone: (517) 353-9290



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