freely = (for) free?

[Mark A Mandel]

On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Dennis R. Preston wrote:

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

Like you.

And I don't like "adverti<z>e", either, but I know some do.

-- Mark M.