I’m crazy about Joe Biden so I’m pretty excited about all the latest happenings in the world of politics, however, if Michelle Obama says, “Uhs, Um, Umm” one more time I’m going to go even more crazy!
Stop with the “Uhs”. Surely, someone much more adept than I, is media coaching her and advising her that it’s very distracting when someone finishes each thought with an “Uh” afterwards. It’s probably something very unconscious on her part, but someone needs to make her aware of it.
One of the tricks you can do when you’re working on getting rid of the “uhs” is to practice taking an extra breath after you finish a response to a reporter. This helps lessen them immensely.
It’s a similar thing when people say, “You know?” after something they’ve just told you (so of course you know because they just told you!).
My grandfather cured me of saying “you know” one particularly hot summer in Texas when I was twelve, by making me put a quarter in a jar each time I said it. It was his jar, not mine.:>)
So uh, you know, how uh, that’s a meaningful memory, uh, you know?
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She must not have been in Toastmasters. You break that quickly. When I was in, back in the day, we had a clicker that sounded every time you said “ah” or “uhm.” At the end of the evening, the Ah Counter (actual meeting responsibility) announced how many ahs everyone said. Our policy was a nickel for every ah, up to 5, was left as a tip for our server.