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By JAMES J. KILPATRICK
Universal Press Syndicate
The story is told on Noah Webster. His wife caught him in the act of pleasuring the chambermaid. “Noah!" she cried, “1 am surprised!”
“No, my dear,” said the great lexicographer, disentangling himself, “you are astonished. I am surprised.”
A significant part of the writing art lies in tl^ making of such nice distinctions. A reader raised the point in a letter just the other day. What was the difference, he asked, between being scared and being afraid? He might also have asked about “fearful,” “frightened” and “apprehensive.”
Let us sort them out. As I read the dictionaries, "scared” and “frightened” are pretty much the same thing. Each carries an overtone of sudden alarm. We are scared by an eerie sound in the night; we are frightened by the thought of a burglar. “Afraid” carried a broader connotation. We may be afraid of failing an exam, afraid of inhaling pollen, afraid of giving offense. “Fearful” is close to “apprehensive.” We sense the
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