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stammer

Disorder affecting the fluency of speech in which certain sounds, syllables, or words may be repeated, while other sounds are prolonged or blocked. Stammering may be associated with grimacing or gesturing, and its severity may increase at times of stress.

A stammer usually begins in childhood and affects boys more than girls. It can be treated by teaching appropriate control of breathing and measured sound production.



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Let thy virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if thou must speak of it, be not ashamed to stammer about it.
Seldom have I known any profound being that had anything to say to this world, unless forced to stammer out something by way of getting a living.
He turned his hat round and round in his hand, his uncle glowering blacker and blacker upon him as the heavy seconds drifted by; then at last he began to stammer, and said piteously:
 
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