Thanks for the reply. I don't know many other stutterers, so it's hard to understand these kind of things. Yeah the setting is definitely a huge factor. Like I worked as a waiter for years and never badly stuttered, but when I'm the customer and a waiter/waitress asks what I want to order, I have to pretend I haven't made my mind up yet nearly every time. Another example, whenever a garda talked to me when I was younger, I would block and turn red and completely freeze up. They'd then get suspicious I was on drugs or something and search me. Happened a bunch of times. ​ >There are overall patterns we can point to in this, but we would not get any useful statistic out of it, in terms of coming up with a "stutter-safe sound" (it doesn't exist). Wait, what if I named my child "uhhmmmm" ? Jokes aside, I'm kind of sad to hear that there's no stutter safe sound. For the longest time I thought it would be "s" until I read about others having issues with that here. Surely though there's certain sounds that are less commonly stuttered on universally? Like Z for example? ​ >So, pick a name - any name - and we're likely to find stutterers who stutter on it and stutterers who don't. Some of those stutterers will even be the same from time to time. Now that you mention it, I can't even think what sound I get stuck on. Like you said, it must vary even from day to day.