People Get Annoyed By Words Like “Whatever”
What words or phrases bug you? Can you narrow it down to just one?
Here's what a new Marist poll says. "Whatever" has been voted the most annoying word or phrase of the year.
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Pop Culture Has Messed Up the Dictionary
So how do you use the word "literally?"
In the literal sense? That would be the correct way. But it's become so common to use the word incorrectly, it's hard to think of an example of what the correct way would be!
How about this. "I literally ran into your sister this morning," meaning I bumped into her and maybe knocked her down, or possibly crashed my car into her car. Liter
New Words Added to the Dictionary for 2013
It was only a matter of time before technology forced some new words into the Oxford English Dictionary.
Those dictionary-powers-that-be added one new word this week that bent the rules, and shouldn't have been added just yet. But it's so popular, and apparently here to stay, that they decided to add it now rather than wait!