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Liberal peppering with "you know"

Posted by Robert Jeffery on February 27, 2005

The term "moronic interrogative" has been usefully coined, so is there one for today's excessive use of "you know" in speech? I've thought up "gneisitis", but I'm not too well up on classical Greek (gneis = you know?).