stammering

A leading charity said there was an "ignorance around stammering" which can "result in a range of responses from suspicion of lying, to laugher and ridicule".

That does, however, make it all the more difficult to look at America and resist the temptation to give one last stammering cry of, “That’s all folks!”

Then we return to Clay stammering: “I thought you wanted one? No?”

As a child he was not really aware of his own stammering - sometimes also called stuttering - but it was getting noticed by adults.

“It’s not...not. Nothing,” I said, stammering on my words like a stalling engine.