Stammerers

Peter indeed was forward enough to speak in his own tongue, but the rest of them were no spokesmen, nor were they quick of apprehension; yet now not only the heart of the rash understands knowledge, but the tongue of the stammerers is ready to speak eloquently, Isa. xxxii. ❋ Unknown (1721)

They shall hear another kind of stammerers when the fierce invaders 'harsh and unintelligible language commands them. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)

Maybe we should ask the stammerers who contributed to a Nicky Campbell phone-in on the subject which had been highlighted by the film, The King's Speech. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I used to work with stammerers: 98% of them could talk when they were in their bathroom; it was just that little doubt in public which tied them up. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The Great British public loves an outsider, you know – in recent years X Factor and Pop Idol has made stars out of stammerers, homosexuals, obese women, goat herders and ratty Scots with terrible hair who can't stop crying – and by proclaiming himself to be a Christian virgin, Rhydian has admitted being the biggest outsider of all. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Then the lame shall leap as an hart, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be distinct: for water has broken forth in the wilderness, and a valley in the thirsty land; and the parched ground shall become pools, and a spring of water shall [rise up] in the thirsty land. ' ❋ 1819-1893 (2001)

The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly. ❋ Unknown (1999)

A century later Ben Jonson in his Discoveries 1640 wrote that some “Children… imitate the vices of stammerers so long, till at last they become such.” ❋ Benson Bobrick (1995)

Over the course of the next couple of months, Yearsley operated on about forty stammerers, all of whom, he subsequently announced, appeared wild with joy at their instantaneous cure. ❋ Benson Bobrick (1995)

Two outstanding eighteenth-century thinkers—both stammerers themselves—also psychologized the problem in new ways. ❋ Benson Bobrick (1995)

Not knowing any better themselves, several hundred stutterers including some mere “stammerers” submitted themselves to the new operation. ❋ Benson Bobrick (1995)

… It is the proper little boys who become stammerers. ❋ Benson Bobrick (1995)

Chronologically, the original castrator is the mother, and as a consequence female stammerers, as part of the Oedipus situation, hate their mothers. ❋ Benson Bobrick (1995)

It is better that prudent readers should listen to him uttering his own words, than to us who are but stammerers about him. ❋ 1560-1609 (1956)