Speech impediments.

[Joycie]

Nae cunt kens whit ahm saying.

Better in the south east though. Probably Swindon's fault.

[Batch]

There is a guy I know from school/playing football, Danny Bell, had a terrible stammer and used to get a  fair bit of playground stick for it. Now he's on BBC Wilts every now and again doing film reviews, he joined the McGuire speech program and although there are a couple of times he pauses a bit, he's like a different person vocally.

The 'r' thing. My 4-year old son is similar, I don't think its too uncommon a young age. He also used to stammer but seems to have grown out of it. Thinking back my eldest had an 'R' problem, but that went away too.

But the point of the post - the name for being unable to pronounce R's. Rhotacism. Sick scientific world sense of humour.

Nae cunt kens whit ahm saying. 

I ken. Lookin foward to the fitba with the wee bairn later.

I read Porno (Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting sequel) and the Scottish Edinburgh dialogue was written like that. Took quite  a bit to get used to!

[Bewster]

In case I caused any offence - in my defence I had a really bad speech impediment when I was a kid. Not sure what the name or cause of it was, but no one could understand what I was saying. Had to go to see a therapist for a while when I was 5 or so to sort it out. So I've kind of been there.

No problems, appreciate the reply. Unless you've been there no one really knows the how deep the scars run and no one how hard you have to work to overcome it. Mine is linked to anxiety that has been kindly passed down through generations in my family. Stop the anxiety, stop the problem.

I got absolutley destroyed at school and despite being almost 40 that pain is still there. Up to the age of 18 I wouldn't use a phone and as anyone who has to overcome any difficulty it was a horrible and nasty process. But I did it and now I'm happy to stand up an talk or present to lots of people and it doesn't bother me in the slightest.  Funnily enough I find people who I present to are more attentive to what I am saying.

I know people who did the Mcguire program and it is harsh. I was in B'muff last year and some young chap stood up in the town centre and with a mic told everybody he was on the program. I went up and shook his hand as I knew how hard that would have been.

[Flashheart]

Funnily enough I find people who I present to are more attentive to what I am saying.

I used to work in timeshare. I know one guy that used to fake a stammer when on the sales deck because it meant people had to pay attention to know what he was saying.

[herthab]

I have a stammer. Nowhere near as bad now as it was when I was a kid. Can't say it really bothers or effects me much: my job is basically talking to groups of people all the time and it I stammer, I stammer. Not the end of the world. If people take the piss I just join in.

[kerry red]

Welease Woderwick

[Notts red]

It's not really a speech impediment but my wife has this thing about repeating herself over and over again, and the more I ignore her the louder she gets