Another word for stammering

The stoical Russell Cade was stammering around like a school boy.

This repetition of the initial letter does not appear to have been due to his stammering but to have been a mere emphasis on the word.

Her stammering made it obvious she'd taken at least some of the calls.

He succeeded more nearly than any of his predecessors in expressing or suggesting ideas and emotions which might have been supposed to be capable of translation only in terms of music. " The unconscious self, or rather the sub-conscious self," says Emile Verhaeren, " recognized in the verse and prose of Maeterlinck its language or rather its stammering attempt at language."

Each country began to.lead its own separate existence, stammering its own tongue; the different nations no longer understood one another, and no longer had any general ideas in common.