[Ads-l] "supposively"

[Jonathan Lighter]

All from Newspapers.com:

1889 _The Sentinel_ (Oregon, Mo.) (March 8) 4: But, whatever may be
supposively evolved by theorizing upon our national fiscal policy....

1896 _Atlantic City Daily Press_ (Nov. 9) 6: As had been supposively the fact.

1920 _Pacific Commercial Advertiser_ (Honolulu, T.H.) (Dec. 9) 5: A
separate and supposedly superior caste.

1973 _Goldsboro [N.C.] News-Argus_ (Dec. 16) 4C [book review]:
Supposively, the men of Alpha Squad are not cardboard characters, but
versions of ourselves.

Etc., etc.

JL


On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 10:05 AM Arnold M. Zwicky
<zwicky at csli.stanford.edu> wrote:
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> On Nov 24, 2007, at 6:48 PM, Jon Lighter wrote:
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> > A chap I know uniformly says "supposively" for "supposedly."  He's a
> > successful architect in his late thirties.
> >
> >  66,000 raw Googlits.
>
> Brians has an entry for "supposably", "supposingly", and "supposively"
> as non-standard variants of "supposedly".
>
> back in March 2005, a Language Log reader wrote me about eggcorns,
> adding:
>
>    >I know this is a different issue, but (offhand) do you have an
> idea of
> > how widespread "supposively" (for "supposedly") is? I've only heard it
> > after moving from California to Chicago (and, possibly, only from
> > people I've met from the South).
>
> i noted at the time that there were plenty of webhits, apparently from
> all over.  and noted the ADS-L discussions in 2004 of "assumably",
> "presumedly", "seasonal"/"seasonable", "supposably", and that old
> favorite "hopefully".  (earlier this year Jon added "reputably".)
>
> now i note that there are a few hits for "presumively" (for
> "presumably"), e.g.
>
> In fact, the music itself on ”Sticky Fingers” is eclipsed by all the
> anecdotes around it: how “Wild Horses” was presumively about Gram
> Parsons ...
> www.dealtime.com/xPR-Sticky_Fingers_
> Limited_The_Rolling_Stones_724384786328~RD-735923
>
> and a couple for "reputively":
>
> Either way, that is my opinion, based on my reputively unbiased
> perspective. I say unban him sometime soon ...
> games.byond.com/forums/LostRealm/Mafia/index. cgi?
> action=message_read&forum=1&id=1339&view=0
>
> but none for "assumively".  yet.
>
> arnold
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