**" I never really have an issue with saying things along with other people, like reciting the liturgy at church"** Precisely, that is because the auditory feedback we gain from choral speech contains not just the sound of our own voice, but also other people’s voices, so when speaking chorally, we are not normally able to hear our own voice in isolation. Hence we are far less likely to evaluate it \[perceive a stutter\] \[monitoring system\]. Furthermore, in choral speech we tend to focus primarily on speaking in time with the others, so our focus is on the timing and the forward flow, rather than on the quality of our articulation – so there is a distraction effect too.