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How do you call the words a speaker uses when he is nervous, like "um", "ah", "like"? (self.english)

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In my native language there's a word for that kind of words, but I'm not sure how they are called in english.

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[–] Moonguide 4 points 1 year ago

Crutches, in my language. We got our collective ears chewed out about it by a hard ass teacher in school. I think I don't use crutches no more, but I could be wrong.