I'm from England (North East) and we also tend to use "like" when it doesn't make total sense, but mostly in speech and not in writing. It's used as a bit of a

I'm from England (North East) and we also tend to use "like" when it doesn't make total sense, but mostly in speech and not in writing. It's used as a bit of a filler word ("There were, like, a lot of people, like, just standing around") or as a way to soften the end of a sentence ("That show was really good like!").