1. Speech can actually improve if stammerers can be put at ease.

2. "For a stutterer or stammerer to be heard, that's a wonderful thing, " he said.

3. If you want any further information and details of courses and individual therapy, send an sae to the Association for Stammerers.

4. His partner meanwhile, burst into the room, pistol in hand, the stammerer hard on his heels.

5. Machado de Assis, born in 1839, of mixed race, epileptic, a stammerer, who, despite early poverty, mastered French and English, translated Shakespeare and poured out stories, novels and poetry.

6. He was delighted audiences had taken the story to their hearts. "For a stutterer or stammerer to be heard, that's a wonderful thing," he said.

7. Might Hooper and Seidler have considered making Logue do the "popinjay" speech by Hotspur from Henry IV Part One – the Shakespeare character traditionally played as a stammerer?