Michelle Wright

I read an article on Dictionary.com about the word “hopefully” and the discrepancy between its actual meaning and the meaning it has taken on in common speech. Suffice it to say that my opinions on the matter are derived more from what I see as the triviality of the apparent “controversy” that the word “hopefully” has caused, and less from my opinion on how the word “hopefully” should really be used. The latter opinion is simple. In every day speech, I have no problem with it

Blame it on msn, facebook, or whatever other means of less-than-perfect social networking and online communications, which undoubtedly helps colloquialisms evolve at a rapid rate… even so, the misuse of words, even in hip, contemporary writing is not the “hip” way to go. Even if your writing is meant to be contemporary, it is still best to be grammatically correct. Misusing words is a common bad grammar symptom, and it doesn’t help that common, contemporary language tends to