International Stammering Awareness Day (ISAD), or International Stuttering Awareness Day, is an annual celebration held on October 22.

Younger son of George V, the future George VI, known as Bertie to distinguish him from his father, has a speech impediment – a stammer that makes the prospect of public speaking a terrifying one. On a ...

Musharaf developed a severe stammer when he was just five years ... to music through headphones - a technique used by King George VI's speech therapist Lionel Logue. It worked and viewers saw ...

In 2010 it was used as one of the main locations for the Oscar-winning film The King's Speech starring Colin Firth as George VI battling to overcome his stammer. The venue was also used to host ...

Most may hear The King's Speech and think of Tom Hooper's multi-Academy Award and BAFTA-winning film, but little may know it was originally conceived as a play by its writer, the late David Seidler.

The Oscar-winning film, The King’s Speech, does an excellent job of showing how George VI’s stammer affected his life and reign. With the help of the Australian speech therapist, Lionel ...

Bred international respekt for folkeretten kommer der ikke, før lande som Danmark tør sige fra over for Israel – og gør op ...

George VI: The Dutiful King. Ziegler is old enough to recall George’s early radio broadcasts in the 1930s and writes touchingly about the king’s struggle to overcome his stammer. However, his evident ...

En af de tidligste kilder på cocktailen stammer 1861 i det engelske satiremagasin Punch ... og netop i 1936 blev der udskrevet en cocktailkonkurrence. Vinderen blev George, der var bartender på ...

Think of portraits of Louis XIV, J.S. Bach, Marie Antoinette, the Founding Fathers, or the ‘hanging judge’ George Jeffreys ... a monastic doorkeeper sacked when his bad stammer prevented him from ...