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Eliminating Throat Clearing

Throat clearing is one of the most traumatic things you can do to your vocal folds. When you clear your throat, you create an extreme amount of movement of your vocal folds, causing them to slam and rub together. Sometimes people do not even know that they are clearing their throats; it has become...

July 9th, 2009 | Home | Read More

Fillers, part two

Yesterday I blogged about Caroline Kennedy’s “You Know” Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAgI4AS1NVg . Here’s another angle. If you’re concerned that you say, “you know”, “like”, “um” or “uh” too often in running conversation,...