Re: disfluencies/editing expressions

Roger Mills scripsit:
> And furthermore--- this is hardly standard, but a private joke between me
> and a friend.  He remembered an occasion in his younger days when, at a
> total loss for words, he just sputtered "such as by". We used it as a
> filler, but also to indicate that someone had just said something utterly
> irrelevant.
I myself find myself saying ['Di:'A:] between sentences.

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