Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We all know someone who repeats a certain word frequently in conversations. Maybe it's "like," or "essentially" or "literally." ...

A screenshot of Google search results shows the meaning of "literally" now includes the incorrect definition of when "something is not literally true but is used for emphasis." (Google screenshot; red ...

Much has been made of the use, misuse and overuse of the word “literally.” Literally, of course, means something that is actually true: “Literally every pair of shoes I own was ruined when my ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The word “literally” has always meant “in a ...

Grammar nerds everywhere have long lamented the widespread misuse of the word "literally." As anyone who paid attention in grade school knows, "literally" means "in a literal or strict sense, as ...

“It makes me mad when people say ‘literally’ when they mean ‘figuratively’ as it does sound stupid and confusing,” a poster on Quora wrote recently. “Is this normal?” In the replies, the top answer is ...

It’s the literal truth, we say, as if that “literal” conveyed an extra measure of authority. Actually, literal meanings are frequently wrong, and often confusing. A recent example is the “naked wife” ...

Grammar loving folks who love to point out where commas should be inserted instead of periods and how semi-colons are both simultaneously underused and overused, should pick up their red pens, ...