I was influence to chair off with Porky Pig , but after Joe Biden ’s public confession last workweek during the Democratic National Convention , it seemed timely to recoil off the leaning with him . Stuttering encompasses much more than just Porky - style sound repetition . If you get those foresighted pauses before speaking , sometimes hollo pulley-block , or if you mmmmmilk various sounds for all their worth , you might be considered a stutterer ( or stutterer ) too . But as this listing proves ( and there are other illustrious stutterers too ) , a talking to baulk is n’t an impediment to achiever . ( P.S. - I had one growing up , too ! )
1. Joe Biden
A keynote speaker at a National Stuttering Association conventionalism in 2004 , Biden grew up with a stutter and was tease by his Catholic school teacher . patently , the nun called him B - B complex - B - Biden in front of the whole course . When young Joe told his mom what happened , she stormed back to school and masticate out the woman . Over the yr , Biden practice reading out loud in front of a mirror and , later , in law school , became acquaintance with another stutterer and the two work together on their speech .
2. Moses
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Who can really say if Moses stuttered or not . But if you think the Good Book , here are some lines that bespeak he most certainly may have :
Read on for more on Winston Churchill , James Earl Jones , and Marilyn Monroe …
3. Isaac Newton
Though not as wide known as his study with gravity and mechanics , Sir Isaac Newton was a Member of Parliament for the University of Cambridge to the Convention Parliament of 1689 , and again in 1701 . Apparently Sir Isaac was so self - conscious about his address impediment , he ask that the windowpane of the Parliament edifice be closed so multitude on the street would n’t discover him stutter .
4. Lewis Carroll
Many people know Lewis Carroll ’s existent name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson . But how many people know that this boy of a clergyman require to become a non-Christian priest ? Apparently he was unable because his stammer would have made it very hard get sermon meter . Carroll is , of course , best known for his Alice in Wonderland book , but here ’s a lesser - know poem he penned that name his affliction :
Learn well your grammar , And never stutter , Write well and neatly , And sing soft sweet , Drink tea , not coffee;Never exhaust toffy . run through lolly with butter . Once more do n’t bumble .
5. Claudius
We ’re talking Claudius Nero Germanicus here , Roman Emperor between 41 - 54 A.C.E. Many people love the famous story about his wife Agrippina murdering him with the poison mushroom cloud ( to allow Nero to rise ) , but did you make love he stuttered too ? He was also know to hobble , drool and was hounded by queasy tics . In Robert Graves ' historical novelI , Claudius , Graves has Claudius say :
" I stammered badly as a child and though , by follow the advice of specialists in elocution , I bit by bit hear to ascertain my speech on localize public occasion , yet on individual and unpremeditated ones , I am still , though less so than formerly , unresistant every now and then to trip nervously over my tongue" ¦ “
6. Marilyn Monroe
Several books on stuttering and stutterers , let in Benson Bobrick’sKnotted Tongues , suggest that Marilyn ’s breathy , sensual delivery was really a way of dealing with a stammer . Apparently she was learn by a speech coach to use exaggerated mouth crusade to keep her soft stammer in check .
7. Winston Churchill
There seems to be a lot of controversy as to whether or not Churchill had a lisp , a stammer , or both . One room or the other , Churchill definitely was ego - conscious about his elocution and practice talk diligently , practise his speech and avoiding , whenever possible , words that begin or end with an S. evidently , he nonetheless pronounce Nazis , Nahsies . ( I ’ve also go through it save as Narzees . )
8. James Earl Jones
Some doer who stammer are able to check their speech impediments while on script , but continue stuttering in workaday conversation ( it ’s called situational smoothness " “ and is probably similar to what Claudius experience and Graves wrote about above ) . Such is reportedly the casing with one of Hollywood ’s most celebrated voices , James Earl Jones . If you see him in that movieA Family Thing , then you recognize he can pull off a believable stammer . That ’s because he really does . The write up goes like this : Jones by chance stutter while reading lines to the film ’s director Dick Pearce . Pearce thought the trip - ups made the character seem more vulnerable and asked Jones to keep doing it .
