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 ...

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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 ...