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He was a lifelong stammerer, and this challenge led him to leave Cambridge, where he had taught in the late 1940s and early ’50s, to work in London as a librarian and an editor.

From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2014

Probably the most useful person was the writer, David Seidler, a childhood stammerer.

From Chicago Tribune • Jan. 20, 2011

At the Observer, I found myself standing in for my idol, the greatest critic of postwar Britain and unabashed stammerer, Ken Tynan.

From The Guardian • Dec. 26, 2010

Quite by chance and in need of work, I became a producer for BBC overseas radio, a stammerer given the job of hiring people whose principal talents had to be verbal fluency.

From The Guardian • Dec. 26, 2010

"You are doubtless more prompt in your narration to the Holy Office, stammerer," grumbled Gasparo.

From Rule of the Monk or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century by Garibaldi, Giuseppe