People like this have been making me ashamed of who I was and how I spoke all my academic life, and are why I now have a ridiculous public accent that I use to avoid their helpful advice.
The hill I will die on: I really don’t like ‘like’ – or other imprecise and redundant speech | Louis de Bernières
Junk speak, like junk food, encourages verbal littering. It has to be one of the worst things about life in Britain, says author Louis de Bernières
