Field had a peculiar hesitation in his speech, almost amounting to the pause of an embarrassed stutterer; and if he related this experience to the British matrons as he rehearsed it to his friends afterward, it was small wonder that they swallowed it with many a "Really!"
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson
Unconscious Stuttering is but a name for the disorder of a stutterer who is too stubborn to admit his own difficulty.
"Stammering, Its Cause and Cure"
Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue
In these cases, the stutterer will sometimes repeat the first syllable ten or fifteen times with pauses between, being for a time unable to recall what the second syllable is.
"Stammering, Its Cause and Cure"
Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue