AP’s approval of ‘hopefully’ symbolizes larger debate over language – The Washington Post

AP’s approval of ‘hopefully’ symbolizes larger debate over language – The Washington Post.

Linguistic battlefields are scattered with the wreckage left behind by Nauseated vs. Nauseous, by Healthy vs. Healthful, by the legions of people who perpetuated the union between “regardless” and “irrespective,” creating a Frankensteinian hybrid, “irregardless.”