Literally

We were privileged to interview a number of great editors and cover a variety of fun and informative topics last year. Based on which posts you read the most, here are the top 15 posts from 2012.

Guest blogger Bill Walsh argues for following a stricter usage style.

In a tweet linking to one in a series of riffs on a tweet of mine (“It begs the question: Did you try and literally infer you could care less?”), Copyediting’s editor, Erin Brenner, wrote:

What’s wrong with the figurative sense of “literally”? Absolutely nothing.

Undoubtedly, like literally, is a bold bluff of an intensifier, usually used to insist on the truth of something very much not true.