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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Wait, UM is more polite that Mr., Mrs., Miss or Ms.?! [b]When did this happen?![/b] I'm a tutor, I would love to know when this phenomenon started, because I actively work to eradicate um, like and uh from my students' vocabularies...[/quote] It goes back at least to the 1970s, because that's what everybody did when I was a child. Either "um" or "Teacher" (in the case of a teacher). The teachers did not like being called "Teacher".[/quote]
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