Words That Don’t Mean What You Think They Do

<p>If there’s one thing that’s sure to irritate a nit-picking grammar pedant, it’s someone saying that they “literally” jumped out of their skin, or that they “literally” died laughing. Elsewhere in the dictionary there are plenty of words being misused and misinterpreted, many of which aren’t anywhere near as well-known or as easy to spot as literally—and so might find their way into the day-to-day language of even the most careful grammarians.</p><p>Support Wrong Term Memory on <a href="https://bit.ly/WTMpatreon" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Patreon</a></p><p>Produced by Jack Shaw and Colin McMillan</p>