> All I can do then is over a period of time, practice saying that phrase over and over when I'm alone, mindful of how it sounds, how it feels in my lips, throat etc. and after a while I know I can say it Yeah that happens to me too. I wonder if its because when you do that....you are disengaging from the regular mechanism of speech and turning that one word into a sound. You view it less like a word and more like a non-linguistic sound. Because many stutterers can sing perfectly fine. So it could be a similar effect. Have you tried the following technique? Relax all the muscles in your lower face, mouth, throat and chest. Pretend that they've all been injected with a deep muscle relaxant. And then pretend you don't know what talking is. And you now have individual control of each muscle (that is already relaxed), but you are controlling them one at a time. And then try and mimic the sound of a person talking by focusing on the consonants/vowels of the words of a sentence rather than the words themselves, and just focus on how you use your muscles to create those sounds. Try that out some time! Let me know if it works.