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Thursday, October 16, 2025

Tag: semantics

Did your head literally explode? No, but you can say it did. John Lund/Stone via Getty Images

Love it or hate it, nonliteral ‘literally’ is here to stay:...

Valerie M. Fridland, University of Nevada, Reno Few words so rile language purists as the use of the adverb...

Why do people have slips of the tongue?

Cecile McKee, University of Arizona Have you visited Yew Nork? Does your stummy ache? What dog of bag food...

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