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Training for the Tongue-Tied Coaches can help people who feel uncomfortable speaking in public to get over their fears:
Improving Your, Um, You Know, Public Speaking Elizabeth Garone 2011
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Help For the Tongue-Tied Do you often find it difficult to speak up in a small group?
Speaking Up Is Hard to Do: Researchers Explain Why Elizabeth Bernstein 2012
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Another Illinois Senator, the late Paul Simon, in his book, The Tongue-Tied American, once called the United States a "linguistically malnourished" nation.
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The deceased Illinois Senator Paul Simon wrote an excellent book on this topic 20? years ago, The Tongue-Tied American.
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_ (EDITOR'S NOTE: Victor and Martin have already previously worked together in "Tongue-Tied" [June 2002], "Food For Thought" [November 1999], and several other stories.) _
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To you, Tongue-Tied in Topeka, I say this: The "grammer" of French-style kissing is the least of your concerns.
amishboy Diary Entry amishboy 2003
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My first card required a Tongue-Tied delivery, which I thought I had expertly crafted.
Jewish Exponent News 2009
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There are four modes of delivery: Cloodle, which involves drawing the clue; Soundstage, which requires acting out the clue; Tweener, which the player describes the clue as bigger than so-and-so, but smaller than so-and-so; and then Tongue-Tied, in which the player describes the clue with as many alliterative terms as possible.
Jewish Exponent News 2009
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Would these new people think I'm an imbecile or incompetent because they couldn't get my Tongue-Tied Hoopla clue?
Jewish Exponent News 2009
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Anastasia Goodstein: Parents Tongue-Tied When It Comes To Talking With Teens
Anastasia Goodstein: Parents Tongue-Tied When It Comes To Talking With Teens 2008
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