remove the extraneous "like" from my speech...

There are a couple of words that just grate on my nerves, and which I would love to remove from my daily speech. The extraneous “like” is definitely one of them. The other word is “got”, as in, “I got a book”, or “I got rid of it”. To me, it seems like a lazy word. People use it to substitute for too many other words, and it really, really irritates me. I’m going to make a concerted effort to remove these two words from my speech.