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I've got one. I've got a bit of a wossy. It is slight so the likes of sexy saxondale may not have noticed it when he met me in person

It's never been a problem for me really asides from a little banter but it's become clear lately that Kaitlin (my daughter) may also have a bit of a wossy. It's a tad difficult to teach when I say: "It's not woadway, it's woadway". Squiwwels are also confusing cwitters.

Do you have speech impediments or know others that do?

I swear. A lot. It doesn't tend to go down very well in my office.

Ditto!

My cousin used to have a stutter but i think he's grown out of it now. Hard to tell because he's not very talkative.

I consider profanity more of a speech enhancement that a speech impediment.

I sometimes stutter slightly when i'm nervous.
Most notably during my wedding speech, that was fun.

When I was a kid I had weird thing where I would say something then repeat it again in mime.
I never even knew I did it until a mate pointed it out to me and then I was very aware that I was doing it. Strange.

Perhaps he's just mid-stutter.

Probably! We've grown up together, the same age and i see him on a regular basis but it's so hard to talk to him. Example -

Me - "alright mate, how you doing?"

Cousin - "ok thanks"

Then there is silence..... Doesn't even ask how i am. Get him drunk though and you can't shut the fucker up!!!

How's he's managed to keep his girlfriend for 5 years, i don't know.

mabey the stutter comes in useful in other ways...

Same here - was really bad as kid and got really bullied. Did something about it and it only becomes noticeable when stresed or nervous.

Having a stutter is nothing to be ashamed about. Even a movie star such as Will Smith can get n-n-n-nervous and start to stutter and f-f-f-fumble every w-w-w-word he utters.

Are you sure it didn't happen after you tried to change a lightbulb?

I had a tutor at school who either had a weird accent or a speech problem, he would say something like 'ok peepoo bags off the tayboo' he wasn't from the far east either, and he had a weird name.

Haha.

TBF, I'd class the wiltshire/swindon accent as a speech impediment. It's hideous.

PE teacher at school had a stammer, cross country day was highlight of the year.

It's not an impediment but I slightly accentuate my pronunciation depending on where I go. I don't really have an accent so it feels ok to do it.

Funny man

I have a slight impediment. I don't know if many people pick up on it (if they do, they're too polite to say) but needless to say since I started working in secondary schools there are some select cherubs who like to highlight it.

I just dont listen to what you have to say Chillers

cunt.

What is it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4_tOiLB_Ko
 
This?

Hahaha sorry

he can't say 'oxford' without saying 'cunt' directly after, often 5 or 6 times

Bit of a lisp, I think. In my head I don't hear it, only if I hear myself recorded.

Oddly, when I worked at Blockbuster I was very acutely aware that I struggle to get the word "exclusive" out properly.

Still a cunt ;)

I have never noticed it mate, sure I will now you have mentioned it though.

Sometimes I struggle to get my words out properly, I've just always put it down to my brain going too fast for my mouth.

Labour need to ditch milliband due to his impediment.sounds like he has a gob stopper in his mouth when he speaks.

And also Gordon Brown looks like he gags at the start of each sentence :)

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.

Nae cunt kens whit ahm saying.

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

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.


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!

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.

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.

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.

Welease Woderwick

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  ;)