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I definAtely like this thread.

The way `literally` has become used for emphasis in recent years can be unintentionally humourous...I literally laughed my head off the other day!

Tyke51, I heard an even worse 'literally' the other day - a young girl 'literally died'. I was relieved that she was a Dr Who-type person, able to reincarnate herself to tell us!

Hi Malone, I think a football player once said `I`m literally over the moon`... `Colemanballs` in Private Eye used to be full of these gems

It's good to have these groans on a sepErate thread.

Credit to you Rossim for coming up with the title!

YOUR so kind Tyke51!

"One of my biggest gripes, is "gripes", or "grapes" as you pronounce it", the Cockney leader of the Greengrocers Union, Ivan Napple was telling me at his market-stall yesterday, "or should it be grape's".

"I have been working hard on my pronunciation and apostrophe's and should like to thank Elle, Malone and others for their help" he added.

Jigjag, thanks for your moan ...moan-related post. I particularly liked Ivan Napple. He's maybe related to my good friend, Ivor Aspberay?

I think I might post this clue on every single Forum thread today. It's from the Sunday Times crossword today.

23 D. Fear the sound of a blade (3).

Ah malone we are of like minds! Richard Osman wrote in his book, A-Z of Pointless, that the authorities had "shown Alexander [Armstrong] and I round the set". I wrote to him asking who they would have shown round had Alexander not been present? He did not bother to reply, needless to say. However it has always been clear to me (as pointed out by a subsequent contributor - was it chrisse?) that if you remove the attendant person, it all becomes quite clear. What is worrying is that schools no longer correct wrong grammar or misspelling and even the BBC with its 500 words competition, insists that grammar and spelling are not important.