Just a few OK?

My good buddy Jeff blogged about and I commented on Um and Uhs the other day.  Low and behold, the question comes up in class today:

“Alan, I see the value in eliminating non-words, and I see how to do it. But if I let one or a few slip, wouldn’t that be OK. [...]

Lead with something good

Watched a presenter last week open (first slide and everything) with “Well, let’s tell you what this seminar is NOT about” and proceeded to go through a pretty comprehensive list of what he would NOT cover. 

We all have things we don’t intend to cover, would prefer not to cover, and will never cover in [...]