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." ...

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, ...

Well, no, but the redefinition of 'literally' leaves it in a rather awkward state. Perhaps it's a word best avoided for the moment It's happened. Literally the most misused word in the language has ...