Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We all know someone who repeats a certain word frequently in conversations. Maybe it's "like," or "essentially" or "literally." ...

Depending on how you use it, literally might mean one thing—or the complete opposite. Here's how to use the word without (literally?) losing your cool. Somewhere along the way, things changed. People ...

Overheard on a tram: “My kids and their mates use it all the time – it’s ‘literally’ this and ‘literally’ that and I’m literally going insane”. So why all the fuss over this one simple little word?

I was sitting in a cafe – one of those generic pain au raisin and latte joints, with an earnest singer-songwriter soundtrack to boot – when a kid to my left piped up: "My school gym is like literally ...