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Subject:Wild card (question about term) From:Richard Dimock <red -at- ELSEGUNDOCA -dot- ATTGIS -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 7 Aug 1995 14:17:22 PDT
Jane asked if "wild card" is one or two words.
In all my poker-playing days the term has been two words.
Webster's 9th New Collegiate agrees.
Web says the one-word terms are:
wildcat
wildfire
wildflower
wildfowl
wildland
wildlife
and the ever-popular
wildwood
Regards,
Dick Dimock Senior Tech Writer of Humble Means at
AT&T Global Information Solutions profitably esconced in
El Segundo, CA, USA Where Archie's Barber Shop faces
the (two-story) Grand Hotel on
Grand Avenue. Off shore breezes
swirl the hair fall on Archie's floor.
Ol' Arch moved here in '53. If all
the hairs Arch has cut were laid
side by side - some fool would sneeze
and we'd never know.
