History VerbalTic / Literature

* Keri the Pakhar in the ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'' novel ''Legacy'' and the ''Literature/NewSeriesAdventures'' novel ''Big Bang Generation'' ends every second sentence with "...yeah?"

->''You’d only be wasting your time, when you could be out tasting your wine.''

* Creator/StephenKing's ''{{IT}}'': Bill had a stutter as a child, which came back when he had to return to the TownWithADarkSecret.

* Sartain Stradius from ''FelsicCurrent'', says "See" at the beginning of sentences, or at the end, or after a comma. Anywhere. And often, see.

* Hasimir Fenring of Frank Herbert's ''{{Dune}}'' tends to pepper his dialog with phrases such as "hmmmm" and "hmmmm-aaah" for no apparent reason. However, this is actually a plot point - Fenring and his wife have a private code disguised as humming, allowing them to hide a conversation with one another in the midst of an overt conversation with someone else. However, it ''sounds'' like a verbal tic to other characters.

** Then there's Ax,who can't stop...Stop-puh...playing...ing...with words. Word-suh...because he has no natural mouth and it's strange for him when he speaks in human morph.

* Mariana from Icarus Phaethon's ''TheFirstBreath'', with her idiosyncratic habit of beginning her sentences with "Aha".

* The PaulJennings short story ''Without a Shirt'' concerns a kid who can't speak without ending his sentences with the titular phrase.

** Also Hodor, hodor. It's the only word he knows, hodor.

* Then there's Ax,who can't stop...Stop-puh...playing...ing...with words. Word-suh...because he has no natural mouth and it's strange for him when he speaks in human morph.

** ''Discworld/{{Thud}}'': hWell, hwe hwould have all been lost, sureleah, hwithout Sir Reynold Stitched?
** ''Discworld/SoulMusic'': Hat hat hat.
** ''Discworld/TheTruth'': Mr. Tulip thinks you have a --ing great trope by the way.
** I comma square bracket tropers name square bracket solemnly swear by square bracket tropers deity of choice square bracket comma that we should not forget the proper pronunciation of the oath of his slash her square bracket delete as appropriate square bracket square bracket name of reigning monarch square bracket Ankh-Morpork City Watch comma so help me square bracket tropers deity of choice square bracket full stop
** In Discworld/{{Snuff}}, Lord Rust has a habit of adding "what" to the end of sentences. It annoys Vimes greatly.

* {{Fauxreigners}} "Gunther" and "Madame Lulu" from ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'' say "please" in almost every sentence.

* J.R.Ward's ''BlackDaggerBrotherhood'' character, [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Vishous]] tends to substitute other words with, "true" or otherwise use the word as a sentence-closer; "You've got my back, true?" or "We'll get this done, true."

* ''TheDarkTower'', especially in book five. Say thankya and hear me well.

* John Ringo's Poertena from David Weber's [[PrinceRoger Empire of Man]] series. And later his expy as Portana into Ringo's IntoTheLookingGlass Series.
** [[UnusualEuphemism Pock]].

* Shirley Jackson, in her loosely autobiographical ''Raising Demons'', describes her daughter Sally going through a phase, at about four, where she repeated the key word in every sentence: "Well, I told Amy's mother that I did not have any breakfast, breakfast, because my mommy did not wake up and give it to me, mommy. And Amy's mother said I was a poor baby, baby, and she gave me cereal and fruit, cereal, and she said there, dear, and she gave me chocolate milk, and I ''did'' remember to say thank you, remember." (Jackson was gifted at capturing the VerbalTic s of small children's speech: "You bad bad webbis.")

* Literature/BlackCauldron: Gurgi will add 'ing' to nounds like "Smitings and bitings" or "Sneakings and peekings."

* Gollum in ''TheHobbit'' and ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''. In this case, the character is actually named after his catchphrase. He also addresses his words to the Precccioussssss frequently.

* [[TheGreatGatsby Jay Gatsby]] has a interesting one, old sport.
* KAApplegate seems to like using this trope for a very specific type of character. In ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' David has a tendency to say the name of the person he's talking to [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment several times in a single conversation]], usually when he's trying to be threatening. Later in Applegate's second series ''{{Everworld}}'', David's {{Expy}} Senna exhibits a very similar tic.

* MarkTwain's ''AConnecticutYankeeInKingArthursCourt'' has the narrator give Sandy a suggestion of giving one of the characters in her tale a verbal tic of saying "bejabbers," to help him know who's talking.