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Hopefully, A.P. Says, It's the End of the 'Hopefully' Debate
Hopefully, A.P. Says, It's the End of the 'Hopefully' Debate
The biggest news about the Associated Press this week isn't its Pulitzer, Haberman writes. It's this: "From now on, the A.P. Stylebook — a bible of usage for multitudes of writers, editors and other species of word nerds — will recognize the legitimacy of the adverb 'hopefully' as it is heard in everyday language, even if it makes a grammar stickler’s back teeth ache."


