http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001216.html In the U.S., land of innocent-until-proven-guilty, both police and journalists describing infractions of the law are famously cautious in the way they attribute responsibility; "allegedly" and "reportedly" and similar hedges are peppered though their reports, sometimes hilariously. And now, in... en-us http://www.margaret-marks.com/Transblawg/archives/000924.html At Language Log, Arnold Zwicky has a post on the misuse of allegedly and reportedly: I’ve seen numerous reports of some potentially felonious event, like an assault or a drive-by shooting, in which it is said that “the alleged perpetrator/a...