Uh vs Uhh - What's the difference?
uh | uhh |
Expression of confusion or uncertainty.
Space filler or pause during conversation.
An occurrence of the interjection "uh".
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=August 24, author=William Grimes, title=Uh, Lead My Rips: No More Bloopers, work=New York Times
, passage=Although Shakespeare refers to “hums and ha’s,” sifting through etiquette manuals and public-speaking guides turns up scant evidence of a prohibition against ums, ers and uhs , which are profuse in the first recording of Thomas Edison ’s voice, in 1888. Mr. Erard, rather ingeniously, traces the prohibition on um and other speech flaws to the advent of radio in the early 1920s. }}
* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=January 13, author=Karen Crouse, title=Searching for Sharapova, and Finding a Dichotomy, work=New York Times
, passage=“He said, ‘You’re that tennis player,’ and I’m like: ‘Uhh, uhh , yeah. It’s me.’ ” She laughed. }}
As interjections the difference between uh and uhh
is that uh is expression of confusion or uncertainty while uhh is alternative form of lang=en.As a noun uh
is an occurrence of the interjection "uh".uh
English
Interjection
(en-interj)- Uh , who was that?
- Uh , let me see...
See also
* er * erm * um * uh-oh * ohNoun
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Anagrams
* ----uhh
English
Interjection
(en interjection)citation
