The word 'literally'.
Misuse thereof, usually when whichever barely coherent pond scum perpetrated said travesty really should have used 'figuratively'.
(ThomsonsPier consumes, Fri 2 May 2008, 13:29, 5 replies)

Hee hee
I like to respond with, "Oh, you mean as opposed to virtually..."
Childish, I know.
Have a *click*
( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Fri 2 May 2008, 13:36, closed)

On the way back from Glastonbury last year
sitting in a five-hour traffic jam, listening to BBC Radio Yokel or whatever they play near Stonehenge, the same news report came on every bloody half hour about a couple who had "literally found a new world beneath their back garden".

My phone had run out of battery during the festival so I couldn't even ring up and vent my spleen at the useless cunts. What they had "literally" found beneath their back garden was an old bomb shelter - a new world would have been much bigger, I suspect.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 2 May 2008, 13:52, closed)

Oh yes,
Even Radio 4 presenters that should know better use this all the friggin' time.

And it hurts me, literally.
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Fri 2 May 2008, 13:56, closed)

amen
as well as techincally
(woo who?, Mon 5 May 2008, 16:22, closed)

Jamie Redknapp
On sky sports loves to use this:

"Gerrard has been amazing today, he's literally covered every blade of grass on the pitch."

"That cross to Rooney was literally on a plate"

"Martin Jol's head is literally on the chopping block."

"The crowd behind the goal are literally going insane."

"Scholes has such a great footballing brain. He'll see a picture in his head and literally paint it in front of you."

Fucking. Idiot.
(gin'll fix it, Tue 6 May 2008, 11:41, closed)