Hopefully...

After we talked about "hopefully" in class, I have been hyper-aware of how people around me (and even how I) use the word.

This is a partial list of a e-mails I have received in the last few weeks where hopefully has been used incorrectly. Instead of using it correctly to mean "in a hopeful manner," pretty much all of these have used it to mean "I hope."

Now I have a new way to annoy my friends by correcting their grammar.

Cheers.