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Tag Archives: hopeful
Hopefully, the complaining will stop now.
Several people emailed me links to this story this week: AP’s Approval of ‘hopefully’ symbolizes larger debate over language Since it’s received so much attention, I’ll preempt the planned topic for today and discuss hopefully instead.
Posted in Things you should know, Words
Tagged ahd, AP style, bryan garner, chicago, controversy, debate, descriptivist, hope, hopeful, hopefully, merriam-webster, oed, prescriptivist, sentence adverb, skunked term
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