Questions of language and style in last week’s Independent, by John Rentoul
n an enthusiastic article about a hoard of jewellery found in Spain, we allowed ourselves to be carried away, saying that “literally hundreds of spectacularly beautiful gold, ivory, rock-crystal, amber, greenstone, sea-shell, ostrich eggshell, flint and copper artefacts have been unearthed”. In conversation, “literally” has been used as an intensifier for emphasis for some time, but it is unusual to see it in print in a factual article.
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