Sunday, July 8, 2012

Pet Peeve: Literally

The word "literally" is overused and often misused too. Most of the time, the word need not be used at all.

Due to my strong dislike of this word, I am henceforth banishing the word "literally" from my personal vocabulary, except maybe to allow myself the odd use of the word in jest.

2 comments:

Heather Dixon said...

You should read "A Hat Full of Sky" by Terry Pratchett. There's a character in there named Annagramma who is always saying "I've told you LITERALLY a thousand times!". Finally the main character gets mad and tells her to look up what literally actually mean.

I love that book :)

jennifer anderson said...

that is subjective that it is overused