# Authors with particular linguistic habits or tics, like often repeated or misused words or phrases **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** books-writing-myths\ **Created:** [October 16, 2022, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/authors-with-particular-linguistic-habits-or-tics-like-often-repeated-or-misused-words-or-phrases/973332 "2022-10-16T13:29:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 40
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2022, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/authors-with-particular-linguistic-habits-or-tics-like-often-repeated-or-misused-words-or-phrases/973332/40 "2022-10-16T19:33:19Z")
From a previous thread about authors you like who have habits you don’t always like in their writing: > [@Tell us something you hate about an author you love.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-something-you-hate-about-an-author-you-love/680167/50): > > Ah yeah, Stephen King. In addition to the forementioned “can’t wrap the damn thing up at the end” problem, he gets these turns of phrases stuck in his head and, like a tongue that keeps going back to a broken tooth, he can’t leave them alone but has his characters keep repeating them. Smucking. Getting up to didoes. Deadfall. And in a similar vein he can start off with a cute and compelling insight into how folks’ minds actually work, including the inelegant and silly and embarrassing thi… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/authors-with-particular-linguistic-habits-or-tics-like-often-repeated-or-misused-words-or-phrases/973332)._