AP Style Guide Finally Gives In On Usage Of ‘Hopefully’

“The barbarians have done it, finally infiltrated a remaining bastion of order in a linguistic wasteland. They had already taken the Oxford English Dictionary … They had pummeled American Heritage into submission, though she fought valiantly … [Now] the venerated AP Stylebook [has] publicly affirmed (via tweet, no less) what it had already told the American Copy Editors Society: It, too, had succumbed. ‘We now support the modern usage of hopefully,’ the tweet said. ‘It is hoped, we hope’.”