[Dixielandjazz] Seeking comments re: Additions to "um" word list. "Buzzing" during musical performance

[Don Kirkman]

On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 16:26:51 -0000, PJ Ladd wrote:

>lots of disfluencies in it," said Liz Shriberg>

>Lots of WHAT? `DISFLUENCIES`
>This is from someone studying language?

>I will lie down for a while, I think.

Makes one dyspeptic, don't it?

The lady probably meant "dysfluencies", since "dis-" means 'opposite' or
'apart from' while "dys-" means 'abnormal' or 'bad'.  I won't dis her,
though, cuz it might have been a typo.

"It Ain't Necessarily So." 
-- 
Don
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