Date:    Fri, 13 Feb 1998 07:42:42 -0500
<br>From:    Fred Shapiro  fred.shapiro[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALE.EDU 
<br>Subject: Hopefully
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<br>I am writing an article on the emergence of _hopefully_ as a sentence
<br>adverb.  If anyone knows of any pre-1963 citations for this usage, I would
<br>be most grateful to hear of them.  (I already have the citations from the
<br>OED, Webster's Dictionary of English Usage, and the Barnhart files.)
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<br> Fred R. Shapiro                             Coeditor (with Jane Garry)
<br> Associate Librarian for Public Services     TRIAL AND ERROR: AN OXFORD
<br>   and Lecturer in Legal Research            ANTHOLOGY OF LEGAL STORIES
<br> Yale Law School                             Oxford University Press, 1998
<br> e-mail: fred.shapiro[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]yale.edu               ISBN 0-19-509547-2
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