''raises hand'' Guilty as charged. I have a bad habit of tripping over my words for no good reason, and literally ''spitting them out'' before I can try again.

This editor has this happen on occasion when his stammer is ''really'' acting up. Most memorably, he ran directly into it with the name of ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' and took ''two minutes'' to finally spit the damned thing out.

Ditto- this troper does this quite often. I stutter on a word before quickly giving up and using something that means the same thing- often cracking people up.

Annoyingly, I have a habit of doing this with simple words as well. I'll either continuing talking in complete gibberish or go *pop* and start the sentence again.

This troper starts having trouble getting her words out if she talks for long periods of time. It ranges from stuttering to mispronouncing words several times to just plain having trouble saying it. It was a big problem in elementary (where she was incredibly shy and hated talking in front of people), and it didn't help that others made fun of her for it.

''This troper'' tends to talk faster the longer he speaks, and at some point he starts to stammer too. Even when speaking at a normal rate, he sometime has trouble pronouncing words with three similar sounding syllables in a row without accidentally adding a fourth one.

This troper cannot for the life of her say the word "statistics" more than once in a short time period without being reduced to feeble hissing noises. It is a pity that part of her job is training people on how to generate them. She also occasionally repeats the last syllable of words without noticing-ing.

{{Haven}} must admit he has this problem sometimes, particularly with the word "Gloucester", to his irritation.

I'm curious to know how, especially as the word's a simple 'Gloster'..

This troper very rarely speaks with a stutter in English. In German, however, it can take several times to get a word out. Even one as simple as 'machen'.

This troper does this, sometimes, as well as a reversed version. Sometimes when I say something, I'll repeat it in a sub-audible whisper, without even knowing why. When I start stuttering over the sub-audible whisper, I know it's time to go to bed.

This editor finds that when he's not had enough sleep, his vocabulary is the first thing to go, leading to this trope.

"I mean, back in Word Warl...Wordl...Wa...W...Dubya Dubya Two..."

This troper sometimes has trouble getting the right vowels in her words, especially when she's tired. A particularly hilarious example came one night when she meant to say "gay" and said "guy" instead. "He's not guy."

Guilty as charged. Clumsy speaker and keeps forgetting words.

Same here. No stuttering, just trouble saying the most simple words and never having the right one when I need it.

This troper too. As my boss puts it, my mouth can't keep up with my brain.

Same for this troper. Made worse by the fact that she's also a MotorMouth.

This troper had the following exchange yesterday, which was accented by his CloudCuckooLanderness: "It's all because of your stupid id-id-ideo-ideo-b-THINGY!" "You mean Ideology?" "No, by now I already mean thingy."

Only when I read aloud. I can only assume that I have a loose wire somewhere.

If you do, then we both do.

This Troper doesn't stammer regularly, but he did once at a great moment. In his TESOL class (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) the instructor asked what was replacing native-like accent as the focus of pronunciation training in more recent teaching methods. #QUOTE#''"Integibl-intellibl-inge-intellil- ...Intelligibility, you know, that thing I didn't have just a moment ago."'' *class laughs*

In my circle of friends, this is so common that we have SOP for dealing with it: stop talking, blow a quick, self-deprecating raspberry, say "Take two," and restart the sentence.

This troper's aunt is not a native English speaker and hence stumbles over any complicated English word she doesn't quite remember how to pronounce: "It's dis-disat-disatri- not good!"

JChance stammers like a bastard, and often trails off mid-sentence as his brain moves on.

Same for this troper. She is often prompted to continue after she's trailed off, which is most annoying.

Whenever this troper opens her mouth, the chances are high that this will happen at any given moment, regardless of the number of syllables. She is amazed if a single minute has passed without her stumbling over a word.

This troper, due to not being able to speak near as fast as she thinks, has been known to use unintentional spoonerisms in both English and Japanese.

This troper's brother stutters over... he stut... he stutters over whole chunks of... whole pieces of sentences. Like that.

Sometimes happen to this troper, but he got worse: sometimes he can't even say simple word, for some reason, and need to try several times before he can say it.

This combined with MotorMouth and a bad VerbalTic habit of using Spoonerisms (accidentally swapping the first letters or syllables of words with each other) can turn this troper into TheUnintelligible at times. My close family and friends can usually understand what I mean regardless though.

This Troper's brain moves way faster then his mouth does. So when I want to speak about something I end up changing my wording mid-stream due to my thoughts going a different way. Also I stutter a lot, when I am excited about something.

This troper, and one of her good friends, both do this. The other girl in question, however, takes a deep breath between stuttered syllables to collect her thoughts, which gives her a very memorable speech style. Not necessarily in a bad way, though.

This troper had a work colleague who had grown up with his Irish grandfather in the house, and spoke naturally with an Irish accent, when he tried to speak with a local accent to avoid attention, this happened.

This troper does it all the time. Usually when he's pressed for something to say and hasn't thought of it yet. The first thing that comes to mind always seems worse than the second.

This troper does this. However when he was younger it was much worse. Now it's just somewhat irritating

This troper tends to talk really fast, so somethign that sounds okay to me sounds rushed to everyone else. It's ''very'' annoying.

This troper's friend has a bad habit of stuttering that causes him to stumble over just about any sentence because he'll constantly pause, start again, pause again, start again, repeat the same word several times, and so on. It's not due to nervousness or anything, simply that, while he's a good artist and fairly book-smart, he completely lacks both common sense and standards of decency when talking to people, leading to him actually ''refusing'' to focus at times on what he's trying to say.

This troper ends up doing this. This was more common when I was younger when my tonsils affected the way I talked. Now, it really only happens if I start talking faster or if there are two words next to each other that are close in pronunciation. If I end up doing this around my guy friend, he's likely to make a comment about it.

Sometimes when this troper talks before he thinks he tends to stutter a bit

A neighbor boy used to have a severe stuttering problem when he was younger the most common things he say are " can I pway, can I pway, pway, pway, pway, pway, pway, pway, p-p-p-pwaystation p-p-p-pwease?" and " Wha-wha-wha-what what ya, what ya, whaaaaaaaaat ya, watch,watch,watch,watch, watching?"

This Troper used one of these as a mnemonic for the Broca's Area, the area of the brain that controls speech production. The mnemonic: My Broca's Area is brock-bri-brack-b-b--not working.

This Troper is completely uncabable of pronouncing "quesadillas" without this happeing. "Can I have one of those que-que-qu-qu-casey-cay-quasi-qu-qu-qu-qua-cas-th-th-those things?"

This troper does this quite often, usually with any word(s) that begin with a "th." It doesn't help that his brain goes faster than his mouth.

In a bit of a sad twist, my mother got this as a result of her stroke. As in, "Go walk the d-d-do-d-do-d...four-legged...furry guy." It mainly kicks in when she's tired and her brain's just too flustered to really keep up.

This Troper also has a fairly annoying habit of stuttering a bit and repeating the beginning of whatever sentence he's trying to say. "I-I d-don't know...I don't know what's happening."

Th-Th-Th-This...um...ohwhatwasthewordddd...troper. It suits her.

Flanderized with This troper, I tend to pause in between words when doing long senteces, But the other half of our ComedyDuo litrially compared the impediment to porky pig. That pausing between words get's that illusion when I realize that I'm saying something stupid.

My 4-year old cousin does this (on purpose), and it's cute to the point of unbearability.

One night when getting pizza with some friends, one of their ladyfriend's asked why this Troper used a pseudonym when ordering over the phone. "Too much hassle, my surname is too allit-alliter-alliterlat--alliteralat--alLITERATIVE". Derp.

Erm... I have a bad tendency to do this if I start talking too fast. I just cannot do MotorMouth in a coherent manner.

This troper especially has trouble with the name Nomo... Nomozo... Nozomu Isho... Itoki... Itokishi... NOZOMU ITOSHIKI.

This Troper. Full stop. Partly due to having such a huge vocabulary she will forget words, partly because of her very short attention span, and partly because her brain moves faster than her mouth (think the opposite of MotorMouth), so by the time she's on the second word her head's already two sentences forward. This is subject to much mockery by her friends and family. We like to call this little phenomenon 'Verbal Dyslexia'. One memorable instance was when I tripped up over the phrase 'Freaky prairie people' (ItMakesSenseInContext) and it came out as 'Free Pubueno'. This become a RunningGag. What is a Free Pububeno? We don't know, but it's free.

This troper sometimes stumbles over her words. She keeps trying to say a word but repeating the first syllable a dozen times before giving up, getting the whole word out and moving on.

This troper's stumbling block is the word "Prestidigitation". A typical attempt at saying it goes: Prestididi... Prestigidita... Presti... Prestigi... Ah fuck it.