Examples of use of UMS
1. Research shows that ums and ahs make us sound less convincing.
2. They found that "ums", "ers" and "ahs" – known as "disfluencies" – force a listener to pay attention.
3. Dr Fox is a reasonably handsome doctor capable of stringing sentences together without too many ums and ahs and staying on message in interviews.
4. He ums and ahs, and mentions a time just after he left the Rollers, when he was signed as a solo artist by a Japanese label.
5. And when they had actors deliver the same answers to audiences –– once fluently and once with "ums" and "ahs" –– audiences judged the hesitant responses as intellectually inferior to the fluent ones.