The Pedants' Society

Fellow No. 00327

Mr Roderick Trant

Admitted August 1951 · F.

Resigned in 1964 over the use of "hopefully" as a sentence adverb in the Annual Programme; the Society notes that the usage had been inadvertent and that the offending word had since been replaced by "it is to be hoped that".

Struck Off, October 1964. Reason: resignation over the use of "hopefully" as a sentence adverb in the Annual Programme.
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