Ehm

[Yeats 62]

Ken

Ken what???

[Arabdownsouth]

Ken what???

[Yeats 62]

Go get Ben behn, he'll ken.

[stokearab]

https://youtu.be/5frVIwYuPg8

Ehm

[Arabdownsouth]

https://youtu.be/5frVIwYuPg8

Ehm

Class!

[Steve Finan]

A special area of interest.
An ehm is part of your/my/their/everyone's idiolect (the phrases people routinely use). Everyone has an idiolect. My wife, when grasping for a large number, says 40 million: "I've seen this movie 40 million times" (when she has seen it twice). Another bloke I know starts many sentences with "At this present moment in time" (he means "now"). Yet another will say: "I'm not being funny, but . . ." Though he rarely goes on to say anything funny.
Another friend starts virtually every sentence with So. "So I am going to Tannadice".
Other people scatter "like" through their speech: "Like, I was like 'know what' and she was like 'ken'"
"Ken" is very common. There is a range of stresses put on "know what I mean" from a trailed-off, quite quiet attempt to a loud (often in a London accent) "Do you know wot oi mean?" that sounds like it is, though it isn't, being asked as a serious question.
My least favourite is "literally" . . . Of a footballer: "He was literally on fire out there today". No, he really wasn't.
But everyone, absolutely everyone has an idiolect. Even if don't realise it.
I write a weekly newspaper column about this sort of stuff, grammar, syntax, standards of English, etc.

[TerryTheTerror]

I'm literally over the moon you've highlighted something that really bugs me. 🤪

[the baldy snake]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziA5ZhlzRic

annnnd ehhhhhh

[ARAbCHNID]

Mine's is 'och' followed by an almost indistinct tut.
As in -
Och (tut) it doesn't matter who we get in as our next manager.

[Arabdownsouth]

A special area of interest.
An ehm is part of your/my/their/everyone's idiolect (the phrases people routinely use). Everyone has an idiolect. My wife, when grasping for a large number, says 40 million: "I've seen this movie 40 million times" (when she has seen it twice). Another bloke I know starts many sentences with "At this present moment in time" (he means "now"). Yet another will say: "I'm not being funny, but . . ." Though he rarely goes on to say anything funny.
Another friend starts virtually every sentence with So. "So I am going to Tannadice".
Other people scatter "like" through their speech: "Like, I was like 'know what' and she was like 'ken'"
"Ken" is very common. There is a range of stresses put on "know what I mean" from a trailed-off, quite quiet attempt to a loud (often in a London accent) "Do you know wot oi mean?" that sounds like it is, though it isn't, being asked as a serious question.
My least favourite is "literally" . . . Of a footballer: "He was literally on fire out there today". No, he really wasn't.
But everyone, absolutely everyone has an idiolect. Even if don't realise it.
I write a weekly newspaper column about this sort of stuff, grammar, syntax, standards of English, etc.

My missus actually watches the same movies 40 million times actually ��