How to pronounce“um”in English
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Definitions of “um”
Expression of hesitation, uncertainty or space filler in conversation.
“Um, I don’t know.”
Dated spelling of mmm.
“"About the same, wherever you go," he agreed. "Um," I said.”
To make the um sound to express uncertainty or hesitancy.
“Meanwhile, in the popular mind umming was simply a bad habit, akin to spitting or picking one’s nose.”
An occurrence of the interjection "um".
“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 and uhs, 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.”