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Just wondering...

  • 21-12-2009 02:25PM
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    ToniTuddle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,964 ✭✭✭


    My mother told me I developed a very bad stutter when I was 3.
    She helped me with it though and it went away.

    I do talk quite fast at times and I am in the habit of stopping and slowing myself down now. As when I talk fast I do slip up on some words and a sort of stutter appears. People haven't picked up on that though.

    The issue I really have is this.
    It's like I swap about the first letters of certain words. I can't think of a recent example but say for instance : horse, cart. I would end up saying corse, hart!!

    People do pick up on that at times and laugh but I don't mind that. It's more annoying at times that I can't speak at the speed I want but I just want to know is that common? Is there even a name for it?
    I even find myself doing it when I am typing on the computer! Not as much as when I am speaking though.

    On a side note, shoulder and soldier are two words that are nearly impossible for me to say, unless I pause before each one and say it in my head first!

    Any help on the swapping about first letters of words would be appreciated! Thanks.


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