"Congressman Filkin's home-coming" (1911). Vaudeville comedy routine by Steve Porter and Byron G. Harlan. Starting at 0:19, "Well, didn't he uh uh ... let me he he ... well I can't remember exactly."

This recording from the UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive exhibits some samples of the use of filled pauses ('uh', 'um') in speech samples from the early 20th Century. The original file and meta information is available at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library web site and are provided here under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. http://www.library.ucsb.edu/OBJID/Cylinder1993

Edison Amberol: 677

Congressman Filkin's home-coming

Len Spencer: "The Arkansas Traveler" (1909). Vaudeville comedy routine featuring back-and-forth between a traveler and a local fiddle-player. The traveler utters several filled pauses:
- 0:05 "Why uh how do you do?"
- 0:29 "Uh Did you see a fella'"
- 0:39 "Well uh how long have you lived here?"
- 1:01 "Are you uh married?"
- 1:17 "Well uh how far is it to the next..."
- 1:36 "Say uh down the road..."
- 1:55 "Say uh you're a pretty smart fella..."
- 2:29 "Say uh that's a very fine apple orchard..."
- 2:43 "Say uh what are you doing..."
- 3:00 "Say uh now I'm a lawyer..."
- 3:20 "Uh I noticed a hole in the roof of your house..."

This recording from the UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive exhibits some samples of the use of filled pauses ('uh', 'um') in speech samples from the early 20th Century. The original file and meta information is available at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library web site and are provided here under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. http://www.library.ucsb.edu/OBJID/Cylinder1692

Edison Amberol: 181

The Arkansas traveler

Lieutenant E.H. Shackleton: "My southern polar expedition" (1910). Starting at 2:21, "After this, we four men had uh a thousand pounds to pull..."

This recording from the UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive exhibits some samples of the use of filled pauses ('uh', 'um') in speech samples from the early 20th Century. The original file and meta information is available at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library web site and are provided here under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. http://www.library.ucsb.edu/OBJID/Cylinder1859

Edison Amberol: 473

My south polar expedition

Thomas A. Edison's first public recording: "Let us not forget" (1919). Starting at 0:28, Edison starts his speech with, "This is uh Edison speaking."

This recording from the UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive exhibits some samples of the use of filled pauses ('uh', 'um') in speech samples from the early 20th Century. The original file and meta information is available at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library web site and are provided here under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. http://www.library.ucsb.edu/OBJID/Cylinder5907

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