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a glitch in the throat, not the mind — fluency hiding behind a locked door.
means To speak with involuntary repetitions or prolongations of sounds and pauses, disrupting the smooth flow of words.
from From an old Germanic root meaning to push, knock, or strike against — the same family that gives us 'stoßen' in German. English 'stutter' is a frequentative of an earlier verb 'stut' (to stutter), with that '-er' ending suggesting the repeated, knocking motion: speech bumping again and again against the same closed door. A cousin of 'stammer,' which travels a parallel path.
- singing fix
- Many who stutter can sing flawlessly
- royal stammer
- King George VI fought it on live radio
- genetic roots
- Specific gene mutations linked to stuttering
- language blind
- Bilinguals often stutter in only one tongue
- kid odds
- Most childhood stutters vanish by adulthood
king george vi — british monarch who struggled with severe stutter, documented in 1940s speeches during wwii
bruce willis — actor who had childhood stutter, visible in early interviews and films like die hard (1988)
ser 20 goodman speech — lewis b. frumkes documented stutter affecting over 3 million americans in 2020s research