"I hate being a pedant, really I do. But there's only one thing more annoying than the "begs the question" mistake, and that's the use of "literally" for figurative statements... I think it outranks "begs the question" for your "most irritating" title. In the past month I've heard everything from "I literally died." to "The presentation was awful. He literally fell on his face." Madness!! ;)" - Anthony Citrano