Um, maybe it's because, um, they, um have a hard, um, time articulating. Have you considered that possibility?
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <hepa7@...> wrote : Perhaps om is one of the reasons why Swedes are so successful in many areas of life? In Swedish, om has many different grammatical functions, e.g. as a conjunction (if) and preposition: around, about, etc. om - Wiktionary https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/om#Swedish om - Wiktionary https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/om#Swedish See also: Appendix:Variations of "om" Contents 1 English 1.1 Alternative forms 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Pronunciation 1.4 Noun 1.4.1 Derived terms 1.4.2 Translations 1.5 Anagrams 2 Aromanian 2.1 Etymology View on en.wiktionary.org https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/om#Swedish Preview by Yahoo