They won't frown always — some sweet
Day When I forget to teaze —
They'll recollect how cold I looked
And how I just said "Please."
Then They will hasten to the Door
To call the little Girl
Who cannot thank Them for the Ice
That filled the lisping full.
— Dickinson (Fr 923, c.1865)
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I would say in a few words that if either of these methods is able to be adopted with success on occasions in an easy and agreeable manner, a real step has been gained towards overcoming the affection; but if the sufferer is told to persist in uttering er, or to sing or roar out his words on all occasions, and trust to these as his infallible remedies, he will probably fail, for the remedies are so much worse than the disease that all sensitive minds would instinctively shun them with horror, and despond the more in consequence.
— Monro (1850)
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Other Examples of Stuttering Humour in Victorian Culture
- Humorous songs such as “The Stuttering Lass”.
- Minor characters in Victorian popular fiction.
- The celebrated theatrical character of Lord Dundreary performed by Edward Sothern. First appearance in the play Our American Cousin (1858). “Dundrearyism” in the periodical press.
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- Anthologized throughout the nineteenth century in numerous anthologies of wit and humor, as well as recitation manuals.
- In many of its incarnations, the “two stammerers” joke concludes with two people who stammer coming to blows because they each misperceive the other’s stammer as mockery.
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I would say in a few words that if either of these methods is able to be adopted with success on occasions in an easy and agreeable manner, a real step has been gained towards overcoming the affection; but if the sufferer is told to persist in uttering er, or to sing or roar out his words on all occasions, and trust to these as his infallible remedies, he will probably fail, for the remedies are so much worse than the disease that all sensitive minds would instinctively shun them with horror, and despond the more in consequence.
— Monro (1850)
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Other Examples of Stuttering Humour in Victorian Culture
- Humorous songs such as “The Stuttering Lass”.
- Minor characters in Victorian popular fiction.
- The celebrated theatrical character of Lord Dundreary performed by Edward Sothern. First appearance in the play Our American Cousin (1858). “Dundrearyism” in the periodical press.
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- Anthologized throughout the nineteenth century in numerous anthologies of wit and humor, as well as recitation manuals.
- In many of its incarnations, the “two stammerers” joke concludes with two people who stammer coming to blows because they each misperceive the other’s stammer as mockery.
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