DO YOU long for the not-so-distant days when people used “hopefully” correctly – as in “to travel hopefully” – rather than to modify a whole sentence, as in “Hopefully, today I will win the lottery”? Were you amazed and appalled when the expression “Not!” was invented in the late 1980s? Do you feel like stabbing yourself with a fork when a brand-new word like Stephen Colbert’s “truthiness” becomes popular?
“Were you appalled when the expression ‘Not!’ was invented in the late 1980s?”
If so, you might be surprised that according to the Oxford English Dictionary, all these questions are based on…
