rumpelstiltskinix:

celerylapel:

am i the only writer who googles a common word out of sheer panic that i don’t know what it means?  i’m talking words that i use all the time.  i’m so afraid of embarrassing myself

This is fact-checking.

When it comes to English, people act like fact-checking is proof of an inferior intellect. It isn’t. Language grows and changes right within our lifetimes.

‘Literally’ now has two opposite meanings in the Merriam Webster dictionary, since 2013.

English may change more slowly than other academic studies, but that doesn’t mean it should be held above fact-checking.

Kudos.