N5b

When a vehicle isn’t running smoothly and the engine seems to stop for a second, then keep going, you might say it __________________.

This question is new; it was not asked in the 1965–70 survey.

SPUTTERS	6
COUGHS	4
HESITATES	2
MISFIRES	2
IS MISSING	1
NEEDS A NEW ENGINE	1
SKIPS	1
SOUNDS A LITTLE ROUGH	1
STUMBLES	1

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