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I wonder if Hoffman thought she was addressing friends and was as horrified at the way it traveled as I would be if my own friend sat at a table at ALA and retailed my opinion of er, um's, work.

When writers attack! Roger Sutton 2009

One can only imagine Aristotle meandering about his patio lecturing to his Peripatetic pupils with "uh's" and "um's" and "hmm's" and "kinda's" and how that babbling affected the history of philosophical thought for the next couple thousand years.

Mark Axelrod: Professor Palin Goes to College 2010

One can only imagine Aristotle meandering about his patio lecturing to his Peripatetic pupils with "uh's" and "um's" and "hmm's" and "kinda's" and how that babbling affected the history of philosophical thought for the next couple thousand years.

Mark Axelrod: Professor Palin Goes to College 2010

A review of 30,000 conference calls made over the go-go years before the economic crash found lying CEOs used fewer um's and er's, suggesting they were coached.

Study: How To Tell When A CEO Is Lying 2010

BTW, count how many "um's" Barack says, when he's talking informally.

McCain campaign again challenges Obama over town halls 2008

A review of 30,000 conference calls made over the go-go years before the economic crash found lying CEOs used fewer um's and er's, suggesting they were coached.

Study: How To Tell When A CEO Is Lying 2010

Perhaps the MCM* has begun to remove a bit of Obama's luster: Last night (iirc) on the NBC Evening News, there was a clip of Obama commenting on the bruited Bush plan, and, interestingly, it was filled with long pauses, um's and ah's, and sounded, well, somewhat less than polished or well thought out.

Hawaii's Senator Inouye Warns Obama Against Running 2009

B.um's mother-in-law, Matilda Joslyn Gage, seems to have exercised considerable influence in the writer's household and may indeed have inspired the four witches -- two good, two wicked -- of Oz.Mrs. Gage was a famous feminist in her day, though she has been eclipsed in public memory by her friend Susan B. Anthony.

In Search of Auntie Em 2009

Also, notice how few um's and ah's and stutters used by Clinton than you hear with all the "top contenders" of both parties.

McCain Strives For Bill Clinton Moment 2009

Usually they are full of stutters, um's, er's, and ah's, because those come out the slowest and are the easiest to transcribe.

Ms. Eythorsdottir made a "chandelier" of "beads of glucose that clung to twine and caught the natural light" designed to disintegrate in 5 months. Ann Althouse 2008