stammer

It was all so traumatic he developed a stammer that lasted into his teens.

“I don’t want to be in it,” he stammered.

I stammer on about how the lens is just a fancy bandage; a device to hide the fact that my vision loss is a ticking time bomb just waiting to go off.

His natural tendency to stammer — “which I think is a sign of intelligence but I can find no evidence that supports that” — was built into his stop-start delivery.

“I … I … I can’t ….go to work,” one stammers in German.