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Michael Erard
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Um. . .: Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean
   2.97 avg rating — 124 ratings
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published
2007
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4 editions
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Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
 3.32 avg rating — 87 ratings
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2012
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pop linguistics = HELLS YEAH.
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Not enough esoteric linguistic facts! I also dislike the cover (yes, I am judgmental and judge books by their covers) and title, since it seems to appeal to idiots.
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Michael Erard
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Um. . .: Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean
"Um, the "he" is me.
That "er" is a British spelling, though I don't recall seeing material on its origins, or when "haugh" (another spelling) became "...more " |
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Michael Erard
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Um. . .: Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean
"I have an essay coming out soon in Seed magazine on another two-letter word, and an article in the New Scientist about what English may sound like in...more
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Michael Erard
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Um. . .: Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean
"Elizabeth, I suspect that you expected a book that would explain individual speech errors, sort of like a book of dreams. Obviously, that's not what t...more
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As someone who is a lover of language and the varied psychosomatic nuances behind it, I was expecting to fly through this one. I was slightly disappointed. It was mainly a review of all the research that has been done verbal disfluencies, and the...
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