From the link in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32271400 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32271400, there's references as far back as 1769 where peopl

From the link in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32271400 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32271400, there's references as far back as 1769 where people were "misusing" the word "literally". It has basically never just meant "literal".