Filler words and phrases

My brother in law says 'uuummm' when he is at a loss for words but I think it's so that no one else can get a word in until he has finished droning on speaking.

Listening to youngsters on the bus it's like 'like' before and after every like word. Like!

It could be worse NonnaW here in the NE we say “ya know worra mean like?”

DH’s previous neighbour used to say ‘Know what I mean?’ In almost very sentence. It got distracting after a while, I lost track of what he was telling us and just heard ‘Know what I mean’, if you know what I mean

“basically” is another popular one .

My late mother-in-law always said "sort of business"...I never understood it. She'd say "I thought of making cottage pie, sort of business" for example, but she said it after everything.

Her daughter, my SIL, says "if you know what I mean", after every damn thing

My last lovely dentist (the man who helped me lose my fear) always said "type of thing" ninathenana. English wasn't his first language and although it rarely made sense I think he just like to say it, type of thing.

He would chat away while you lay there with your mouth wide open.... "how is your family doing, type of thing?"

Yikes, have recognised another one of my own.... But....

When gd1 was a small and very self determined little girl every little thing needed to be negotiated truth to tell as a teenager it’s much the same!. My dil said that after I’d had gd with me her catch phrase was “tell you what, mummy, why don’t we....?” I’d no idea I said that so much.

A friend uses 'type of thing' a lot.
I confess to saying 'exactly' more often than I ' kind of' should 'so to speak'

I catch myself pretty often saying 'exactly', or 'yes, I know' (but not with Sybil Fawlty's intonation )

I know someone who adds "and everything" meaninglessly to his conversation. "I knew they'd be here at midday, so I was tidying and everything, and making sure I had enough in for lunch and everything, but they arrived early while I had to dash down the shops and everything..." - a fairly typical example

Going forward!!!! I don't use it and cannot understand why people use it.

Right, or indeed.

Of course

Absolutely!