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Presidential pauses? What those 'ums' and 'uhs' really tell us about candidates for the White House

  • Written by Valerie M. Fridland, Professor of Linguistics, University of Nevada, Reno
Presidential pauses? What those 'ums' and 'uhs' really tell us about candidates for the White HouseUp for debate? Brendan Smialowski/Jim Watson/Morrry Gash/AFP via Getty Images

Nine. That is the number of “uhs” that former President Barack Obama uttered in a period of two minutes during a 2012 presidential debate. Other Obama “uh” counters, such as University of Pennsylvania linguist Mark Liberman, clocked him as using...

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