# Authors with particular linguistic habits or tics, like often repeated or misused words or phrases

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**Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/authors-with-particular-linguistic-habits-or-tics-like-often-repeated-or-misused-words-or-phrases/973332/107 "2022-10-18T03:50:30Z")

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> [@mbh](#):
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> In one of the books, Bond and a pretty girl spend several pages discussing the sailor in the Old Spice advertisements.

Not Old Spice, Players cigarettes (in Thunderball).

About eight years ago, we had a thread on [“Authors and the unusual words they like to overuse”,](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/authors-and-the-unusual-words-they-like-to-overuse) which helped me finally identify which was that author I couldn’t remember who used the word “roil” excessively (Stephen R. Donaldson, Thomas Covenant Chronicles).

A lot of the examples there have reappeared in this thread.

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