At 02:57 PM 8/15/2002 -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > > >What evidence is there for blaming this innocent German word for the >abuse of "hopefully", though? I mean, it looks reasonable on the face >of it, but we all know how reliable *that* is! Dammit, I no longer remember my source on that one. It came up in a discussion about fifteen years ago, before I was willing to concede the battle lost.