You may have considered how funny certain words or combinations of words can sound when you take their literal meaning into ...

Here’s an interesting thought experiment. Pretend that you took all words at their literal interpretation, all of the time, wherever you went, and acted upon those words strictly and accordingly. For ...

From the “Misty Mountains” to “Winterfell,” the names of places in fantasy do for us what most real-world names do not: They evoke something. With their primitive literalism, they conjure a sense of ...

Using ‘Literally’ Metaphorically? That’s Literally Nothing to Get Worked Up Over. English language purists object to using the adverb to mean its opposite, but many other words have made a similar ...