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...I find it extremely funny when people use the word "virtually" to mean "practically" or "nearly" or "almost" and they turn out to be wrong but are excused by the fact that they added the magic word "virtually" :) ...and conversely, if someone uses the word when talking to me, I label everything the person says afterwards as 99% weasel words...


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