We all know someone who repeats a certain word frequently in conversations. Maybe it's "like," or "essentially" or "literally." That likely sounds familiar, and it can be a bit distracting—especially ...

It would make a perfect clickbait ad “Learn this one simple trick to stop worrying about Donald Trump and Make America Great Again.” What’s the trick? All you have to do is take Trump seriously, but ...

Few words so rile language purists as the use of the adverb “literally” in a figurative sense, as in, “That movie literally blew my mind.” But as a linguist who studies how English has changed over ...

A grammatical crisis of epic proportion is literally sweeping the nation — only not with a big broom. This emergency involves the rampant, and woefully incorrect, usage of the word “literally.” As ...

There are many things that enrage grammar snobs, maybe because they’re not exactly the nicest of people. They hate run-on sentences, the incorrect usage of “your” and “you’re,” and when people don’t ...

Few words so rile language purists as the use of the adverb “literally” in a figurative sense, as in, “That movie literally blew my mind”. But as a linguist who studies how English has changed over ...

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 ...

We're going to take a moment now to talk about a word - yep, one word. Maybe you use it all the time, or maybe you hear people use the word, and it drives you up the wall. I'm talking about the word ...

The use — and some would say, misuse — of the word "literally" has many lovers of the English language in an uproar. But Jesse Sheidlower, editor-at-large of the Oxford English Dictionary, asks ...

Valerie M. Fridland does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...