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OP If a book on punctuation can become a best seller, why not a book on "disfluencies"?
Here's a revealing tidbit:
drinking alcohol reduces ums
If true, it's probably because you can't hear the ums in the slurs.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/03/arts/03TANK.html
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