2007 August 24, William Grimes, “Uh, Lead My Rips: No More Bloopers”, inThe New York Times[1], archived fromthe original on4 January 2013:
As the years go by, speech reverts to childhood levels of disfluency, with more pauses, more errors, more repeated words, but even the peak years are not great: up to 8 percent of the average person’s word output consists of meaningless fillers and placeholders like um,uh and er.
2024 June 24, “Baldwin Judge on FIRE!”, inLaw of Self Defense[2], page 1:
And the very highly paid legal defense team for Alec Baldwin,uh basically Manhattan lawyers fromuh Emmanuel Quinn, a top 50 worldwide law firm, highly paid.
2007 August 24, William Grimes, “Uh, Lead My Rips: No More Bloopers”, inThe New York Times[3], archived fromthe original on4 January 2013:
Although Shakespeare refers to “hums and ha’s,” sifting through etiquette manuals and public-speaking guides turns up scant evidence of a prohibition against ums, ers anduhs, which are profuse in the first recording of Thomas Edison’s voice, in 1888. Mr. Erard, rather ingeniously, traces the prohibition on um and other speech flaws to the advent of radio in the early 1920s.
