Everything Sounds

Steam trains have been around for hundreds of years and devoted people with a lot of passion, patience, and strong work ethic are keeping the culture alive at volunteer-run organizations across the world. The Monticello Railway Museum in Illinois, and the Chelmsford Society of Model Engineers in England are two organizations doing their parts to help the culture make it through to the next generation.

When we stumble, misspeak, or fill our speech with um, er, and uh sounds, we are speaking with disfluencies. Michael Erard wrote a book on the subject called Um…: Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean. Learn about what disfluencies are, their cultural perception, and why they may not be such a bad thing from Michael and Katie Gore of Speech IRL. Music in the episode was contributed by Podington Bear.

A listen back to some of the stories we featured in 2014. Music: Podington Bear - "Frosted Glass" Thank you for listening, sharing, enjoying and taking part. It's been an incredible year. All our best, @georgedrakejr and @CraigShank Episodes featured (in order): https://soundcloud.com/everythingsounds/48-from-here-to-ear https://soundcloud.com/everythingsounds/51-zappa-dummy https://soundcloud.com/everythingsounds/54-shapenote https://soundcloud.com/everythingsounds/49-mad-genius https://soundcloud.com/everythingsounds/46-dr-blankenstein https://soundcloud.com/everythingsounds/55-restaurant-sound-design https://soundcloud.com/everythingsounds/45-sounds-of-skateboarding https://soundcloud.com/everythingsounds/50-jukebox-collector