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hopefully
Hopefully is an adverb which means "in a hopeful manner" or, when used as a disjunct, "it is hoped." Its use as a disjunct has prompted controversy among advocates of linguistic purism or linguistic prescription.〔Kahn, John Ellison and Robert Ilson, Eds. ''The Right Word at the Right Time: A Guide to the English Language and How to Use It'', pp. 27–29. London: The Reader's Digest Association Limited, 1985. ISBN 0276384393.〕
== Use as a disjunct ==
According to Merriam-Webster the disjunct sense of the word dates to the early 18th century and had been in fairly widespread use since at least the 1930s. Objection to this sense of the word, they state, only became widespread in the 1960s. The editors maintain that this usage is "entirely standard." Before 2012, the ''AP Stylebook'' proscribed the use of "hopefully" as a disjunct.〔
The controversy over its use is similar to those surrounding words or phrases such as "begging the question", "bemused", "nauseous", "who" vs. "whom" and the loss of the distinction between "disinterested" and "uninterested."〔 The use of "hopefully" as a disjunct is reminiscent of the usage of the German word ''hoffentlich'' ("it is to be hoped that").
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