Lowe's own overuse of the word stood out to showrunner Michael Schur during his audition. Rob Lowe has become known for saying "Literally!" — so much so, that he named his podcast after it. On a ...

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." ...

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. And Miami, obviously. This emergency involves the rampant and woefully incorrect usage of the word “literally.” As with most ...

My favourite misuse of "literally" came from an august editor at an august publishing house. A debut novel, she declared to a group of journalists, had "literally broken her heart". We all, of course, ...