I literally cannot believe it. Did I use the word “literally” in the correct context? Anyone who has any basic knowledge of grammar would say no. Or you might say yes,  but then I would say you were wrong. At least up until today.

Dictionaries have begun expanding their current definition of the word (which is ‘without exaggeration’) to include that ‘literally’ can now be used for affect. And no, these are not dictionaries created by random teenagers trying to prove their parents wrong.

Oxford is doing it…

Webster’s is doing it…

Even Google is doing it!!

This is literally insane. Literally.

Teachers may constantly nag at you about the importance of good grammar. Maybe you don’t really care to listen. After all, there’s something called spellcheck. Too bad for you, my friend, but spellcheck doesn’t check grammar, as in it doesn’t care if you misplace an apostrophe or comma. So just in case you decide to snooze through your next grammar lesson, just remember these fails.

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Got it? Good.

Twitter is a great way to follow your favourite celebs and athletes, but some of the things they tweet are a little bit careless.

Filled with misspellings, grammatical errors and often times, gibberish that nobody can understand, sometimes I wish there was an autocorrect tool I could use to immediately brush up those mistakes (Don’t blame me! I had to take a grammar exam in first year university!).

But upon seeing some photos of a group of second graders practicing their skills by correcting a bunch of embarrassing tweets by NFL players, I now know that I have faith in the future generation.

Thank God, for the world’s educators. Teaching, you’re doing it right.