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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
But getting back to adverbs ....... Whatever happened to "probably"? I thought it was "He will probably do xyz" or "He is likely to do xyz". Nowadays the usage seems to be "He will likely do xyz." They've changed the usage patterns of "likely" so as to omit the "to"; and they've done away with "probably" entirely.  |
That's a likely probable, or
a probable likelihood...
probably