hopefully/hopedly

[ronbutters at AOL.COM]

Indeed, so little traction that the only other person who remembered it got it wrong!

I can't think of anything else the magnificently Dr Cassidy did not prevail in.
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Fred Cassidy's variant of choice was "hopedly" (in three syllables).
Unfortunately, it didn't get much traction.

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