Americans are, like, so totally over how we speak — but can we actually stop using them? Filler words have become so common in everyday conversation that most of us hardly notice them — until someone ...

As someone who’s originally from Southern California and now lives in the South, it’s not uncommon for me to get Valley girl comments. I have a habit of throwing in a quick “you know, like” or “so ...

(CNN) — As someone who’s originally from Southern California and now lives in the South, it’s not uncommon for me to get Valley girl comments. I have a habit of throwing in a quick “you know, like” or ...

(CNN) — As someone who’s originally from Southern California and now lives in the South, it’s not uncommon for me to get Valley girl comments. (CNN) — As someone who’s originally from Southern ...

If you take that to a larger, regional scale, you get things like the Valley girl accent, which is created by cultural comfort with certain filler words. “The way we use language changes from speaker ...

ATLANTA — As someone who's originally from Southern California and now lives in the South, it's not uncommon for me to get Valley girl comments. I have a habit of throwing in a quick "you know, like" ...