Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Wide Minded?

I've noticed that when referring to being less narrow minded, people don't say 'be more wide-minded.' Rather, they say 'be more open-minded.'

Why IS that?

There are people who use 'close-minded' with 'open-minded' but they never use 'wide-minded' with 'narrow-minded'!!!

Gosh English is weird....

2 comments:

Geoff said...

wide-minded just sounds very awkward and doesn't have the zing of "open-minded" case closed!

Albert said...

http://www.english-zone.com/language/english.html