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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...

EXPLORING NATURE

Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...

Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison