2015年10月13日 · The Mmmm syllable can be several syllables, with many conventional meanings, like MMM-mmm or mmm-MMM, which can respectively be 'no' and 'yes' in many contexts. It's described phonetically as a syllabic voiced bilabial nasal continuant; in IPA it's [ṃ] (Unicode 1643; UTF8 E1 89 83; Latin small letter M with dot below).

hmmmmmmmmm, well, I think you should do as many mmmm's as the moment takes your fancy. One day might be 3 mmm's yet another day may well be 12. It's all depending upon the present moment. However long your finger wishes to press the mmmm key. I notice the m's seem to type slower on this page. This is unusual, I am wondering more about why this ...

@J.R.- I say it on several occasions. 1. When I want to say "I'm not sure I agree with you, but I don't think it's worth arguing about." 2. when I'm not paying strict attention to the person who's speaking and I realize they've just addressed a question to me and I want to indicate that I need them to repeat it. 3.

2013年10月10日 · In practice in US speech, what's written as I'm going to, or as I'm gonna, is pronounced somewhere around /'amənə/, with 3 syllables, the last two unstressed. In rapid speech, the second nucleus deletes and the two nasals assimilate to a long /m/, leaving /'ammə/. That's pretty normal in whitebread American English faspeech, not just AAVE.

It was 4:46 PM when I wrote the comment. It was 4:46 p.m. when I wrote the comment. Of those 4 sentences, I find "It was 4:46 pm when I wrote the comment" to be the most pleasing. When I read a time, I assume that the meridiem period is going to follow. In that context I don't need 2 periods to remind me that a.m. or p.m. is an abbreviation.

2018年2月3日 · H'm and hm are not attested until much later. The etymology of the word hum as a noun or verb, as opposed to an interjection, which has a different pronunciation and meaning, might be relevant as well to the evolution of "hmm." This is attested earliest in written form, and the OED offers this definition of a verb, the earliest form.

2020年7月28日 · It is easy to say because the "m" sound can directly transition into the "b" sound in "bye," (because your lips are closed) which is what makes "mmm bye" smoother than "bye." Also, saying "mmm" before "bye" gives you a moment to think about whether you want to add anything else to the conversation before hanging up.

@Mitch -- I'm not going to ask why exactly you need to know. I'm not any sort of expert myself, but it seemed to me that in the US, the "madam" has a purely executive role while the Korean "room-salon" hostess is what you might call a hands-on manager. More specific than that, you'll have to investigate for yourself. Report back. –

2016年10月21日 · 1974 J. M. Young et al. We are being played or blown Away (Library of Congress MS sheet music) (Eu 478437) Blown, blown, blown away By my soft, tequila-fingered lady . 1975 Washington Post 24 May e32/4 (cartoon caption) Days like this just blow me away —seems like all the world's at peace with itself.

2015年7月10日 · I think there is a distinction to be made, though. Units that are stuck together like kilowatt-hours are usually indicative of multiplication, that is "kilowatts x hours," since it's measuring how many kilowatts you're using per hour times the number of hours. mm Hg, on the other hand, is read "millimeters (of) mercury," and is merely indicative of a reading on a scale, …