Another view is that a stutter or stammer is a complex tic. If Shakespeare could sing with myriad lips, Browning could stammer through a thousand mouths. In the mid-1920s, he had speech therapy for a stammer, which he never fully overcame. When he recovered his voice he was left with a pronounced stammer. If you hear the real speech, he's clearly coping with his stammer. Because of his stammer, Albert dreaded public speaking. Roshan is vocal about his childhood stammer. He had a stammer during childhood and in his early teens. Arkwright speaks with a stammer, which he acknowledges sometimes makes it difficult to express himself. Once again, Billy begins to stammer in rage. Acting was an obvious career move, but he had a bad stammer. Bonacci also described a stammer that Johnny had when he was upset. At my prep school, everyone knew I had a stammer. When he is disguised, he does not stammer at all. Maugham developed a stammer that stayed with him all his life.