"last stitch effort"
Mark A. Mandel
mamandel at LDC.UPENN.EDU
Tue Sep 28 21:49:41 UTC 2004
John Baker quoth:
>>>>>
Well, "assumedly" is not terribly common, but what's wrong with it?
I had no trouble finding several hundred uses by people who should know how
to write. "Several hundred" is not a lot (a Google search for "assume," for
example, produces over 8 million pages), but it's enough to suggest that
"assumedly" is a viable word. Here are some examples:
From a federal court of appeals: "Because illegal aliens are
assumably removable at any time [...]
From an editorial in the Boston Globe, 1/22/1987: "In the best of
all possible worlds, so goes the theory of Esperanto, everybody would speak
the same language, and, assumably, everybody would understand everybody
else."
From formal written testimony before a congressional committee,
[...]: "As stated in the bill, hospitals must "operate" training programs
to receive payments from this account, but hospitals that participate in
affiliated programs assumably would not receive payments."
I await the prescriptivist response.
<<<<<
I await the citations of "assumedly". All of the above citations are of
"assumABly". Or do I misunderstand the argument?
-- Mark A. Mandel
[This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]
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