hopefully

[Shapiro, Fred]

I don't know about David Safire's views, but William Safire had by the 1980s accepted "hopefully" as a sentence adverb.

Fred Shapiro



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I thank you all for correcting my misunderstanding. I originally got it from a David Safire, may he rest in peace, column.


Dan Nussbaum

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