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 ...

The Internet is abuzz with irate grammarians criticizing the way Google defines the word "literally." In addition to the word's original meaning—"in a literal manner or sense"—the Google definition ...

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, ...