Words of the Year and the Century

[Fred Shapiro]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2000 AAllan at AOL.COM wrote:

> 1932    hopefully

Some people on this listserv might be interested to know that in a
forthcoming article in American Speech, I push back the evidence for
_hopefully_ as a sentence adverb (I have previously traced it to 1851, as
noted in American Speech and the New York Times) to 1702.

Fred R. Shapiro                             Coeditor (with Jane Garry)
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