Like in Scottish English

[Jean Crocker]

It's used in on Tyneside in the north-east of England too, perhaps in the same way as in Scotland? Example:
 
Do you not want to, like?
 
 
Jean
 

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	For a quite different use of "like" as a discourse marker
	in Scottish English, see:
	
	Miller, Jim and Regina Weinert (1998). Spontaneous Spoken
	Language. Oxford: Clarendon. pp. 306-334.
	
	Lachlan Mackenzie