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My dear earworms: these words and phrases which automatically repeat in the mind

The term is normally applied to music, but words can get stuck in the (real or figurative) phonological-loop too, and this often happens to me.

I don't know what particular quality these words have, but I can sense it even reading over them. Like they are sticky or dangerous.

"Sometimes when you're kayaking a word gets stuck in your head, and one time banana flambé ... popped into my head. And I don't even like it. But all the way through the race it was 'banana flambé, banana flambé, banana flambé.' Thankfully, it wasn't a very important race." -- Adam van Koeverden, Olympic Gold Medalist