"Pardon me" grunts

• Contrived coughs
• Attention-getting sounds
• Requests for attention
• Frog removers?
• Throat clearers
• Some conversation interruptions
• They may cut a sentence short
• Reminders to conversation monopolizers
• Sounds that make frogs disappear?

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