An unidentified wit once said, "Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Snore, and you sleep alone." Yet snoring is far from a laughing (1) as those unfortunates with good (2) , who are rightly subjected (3) the sounds of the snoring disorder, will testify. It has been estimated that one of eight Americans snores; this means that there are (4) 21 million people—women as well as men—who render a(an) (5) sound when they are asleep. And assuming that each snorer (6) the sleep of at least one other person, it (7) follows that there are 21 million unhappy listeners. (8) a sleeping person breathes, either in or out, several (9) in his nose and throat (10) the snoring. The sounds, (11) the soft palate and other soft structures of the throat, are caused by vibratory (12) to inflowing and out flowing air. When the soft tissues of the mouth and throat come (13) to the lining of the throat, the vibrations that (14) are caused by the position of the tongue. In (15) , the noise made by snoring can be (16) to the noise when (17) flutter a flag on a pole. The frequency of the vibrations (18) on the size, density, and elasticity of the affected tissues and (19) the force of the air flow. Although it is usually the process of inhaling or exhaling through the mouth that cause snoring, short snores come from the nose of an open-mouthed sleeper. In all fairness to snorers, however, it should be (20) that snoring is an involuntary action which stops as the offender is awakened.