Uh … this hour … we’ll … ahh … explore why it’s often so tough to get that … uh … sentence out and what that difficulty says about the speaker with Michael Erard. His book, “Um …: Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean” (Anchor, 2008), is now out in … uh … paperback.
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