hopefully

[Dan Goncharoff]

Or maybe John Jacob Astor starting saying it in NYC 200 years ago...
DanG


On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 1:47 AM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Shapiro, Fred wrote: <<< earliest example =85 Cotton Mather (!) in 1702.>>>
> WB: Herr Hoffmann (of Jazzmusik fame) also taught us that this englisch use
> of <hopefully> was borrowed from German <hoeffentlich>, part of the war
> booty from WW2. And, by George, my Cassells does indeed gloss
> <hoeffentlich> with (adv. it is to be hoped that). Krauts got no problem
> with it. {Hopefully the sun will rise tomorrow, but no doubt will
> disappointedly set.}
>
>

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