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What we get wrong about 'um' and 'uh,' with Valerie Fridland

Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

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The Power of Vowels

"There is this whole other side to language about how it's powerful and purposeful, even if we don't love the way it sounds," he says. "I realized that people that don't study linguistics for a living or take a linguistics class from one of us probablyDon't have access to understanding how that is the same process as the thing that I was just talking about."

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