


I hope the New Year brings with it another year of love, hope, and happiness.May the New Year bring joy, peace, and happiness to you and your entire family.May God fill your heart with His peace and may work of your hands receive divine touch that your prosperity may know no bound this New Year.I desire and pray that you may enjoy good health, great wealth, boundless joy and unquantifiable peace.

I pray that this New Year will bring you new joy, new hope, new inspiration, new goals and new achievements with new taste of life.As we step into this New Year, may your fears fade away, your strength be renewed and your dreams come true.My greatest desire for you this New Year is success, courage and prosperity.A new year is a fresh start for realization of dreams, may the beginning of this year fill you with new strength, bravery and faith necessary to achieve your dreams.As we step into a new year, may everything in your life receive divine touch.A fresh start is a moment of hope and great expectation, may you begin this year with boundless joy, joyful spirit and abundance of God’s favour.As the beauty and gifts of yuletide fades to usher a New Year, may your new beginnings be renewed with good tidings, happiness, hope and peace.As you step into a new month and New Year, may every closed door open and may testimonies never depart from your lips. New Year marks the beginning of a fresh start.Look for more segments of Ask the Editor here at. The main complaint about the sentence adverb hopefully was that it was new, but it's not new anymore. The fact is, the language changes just fast enough for us to notice, and when people notice changes, there's often a harsh reaction. A few other sentence adverbs that function in a similar way are interestingly, clearly, luckily, and unfortunately. Disjuncts are an efficient way to comment directly on the content of a sentence. But in, "Frankly, I think your essay needs more work," it modifies a whole sentence, and would be called a sentence adverb or a disjunct. Here it would be called an adverb of manner. In, "You can speak frankly with us," frankly modifies a single word. The fact is, some adverbs can be used in two different ways. Nobody has forgotten what a cookie or a mouse is just because we also use those words with new meanings today. Plenty of words have multiple senses and we all use them without difficulty. Some commentators have even warned that the word's original meaning, in a hopeful manner, would somehow be lost as the newer sense spread. Those who have this particular peeve believe that it's completely illogical or nonsensical to use the word this way. Since the word hopefully originally meant in a hopeful manner, it can't possibly also mean, I hope. The peeve argument usually goes like this: This usage really got on some people's nerves. The surge in popularity brought about a surge of criticism. rather than Britain, and had a kind of explosion of popularity around 1960. This use of hopefully seems to have started in the U.S. One we sometimes hear about is the use of the word hopefully to mean, I hope, as in, "Hopefully, it won't rain tomorrow." Welcome to Ask the Editor, I'm Peter Sokolowski,Editor at Large at Merriam-Webster.Įverybody has a pet peeve about English.
