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

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**Post date:** [October 16, 2022, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/authors-with-particular-linguistic-habits-or-tics-like-often-repeated-or-misused-words-or-phrases/973332/46 "2022-10-16T23:16:35Z")

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> [@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):
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> like a tongue that keeps going back to a broken tooth,

Nice phrase! I know King has used that one more than once.

Too many of his books have extended chase scenes.

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