Reply to post: Re: "Erm" is for the speech impedimented.

Erm... what did you say again, dear reader?

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Re: "Erm" is for the speech impedimented.

their habit of making so many of their vowels the same as in "her"

The sound in question is called a schwa, and it's the most common phoneme in English of all varieties.

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