I wage a losing battle in my house over the use of the word "literally".
"I'm not actually joking, Alice, we saw this apple and it was literally
as big as a house," is the sort of sentence – with the requisite
upspeak intonation – that brings out the grumpy pedant in my children's
father. "Please, please," I plead. "Can't we use the word literally,
well, just a little more literally." The kids raise their eyes to
heaven, sniggering over my middle-aged fussiness.
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