Hogan et al (2005) found 10.7% of babies born during their research appeared to be
tongue-tied but only 44% of those experienced feeding problems.
"After he had been diagnosed, I went to see my family and my mother said she had been
tongue-tied as a baby as well and I never knew."
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These include
tongue-tied parents explaining the facts of life, adolescent chat-up lines, weird hospital speak, learning a foreign language, and an extended selection of song lyrics that range from the lazy through surreal to the ridiculous.
Bottle feeding: A
tongue-tied baby may also find bottle feeding hard.
I was dumbstruck,
tongue-tied, unable to say even "hello" to the great man.
The 36-year-old actor got
tongue-tied when asked to do the Midland accent for a play.
It tells the story of shy Tim, too
tongue-tied to declare his love to the girl of his dreams.
THE book
Tongue-Tied was produced by four disabled friends.
But even the somewhat
tongue-tied Lister was made to look like a babbler by John Mullins when he got the mike unexpectedly thrust at him.
Experts blame the trend for women getting
tongue-tied on TV shows, films, music videos and Britney and Madonna's infamous clinch at last year's MTV music awards.
John Russell Brown writes on devices in Shakespeare that convey sexual arousal in performance, such as
tongue-tied first meetings or clumsy words, evasions, or nonsensical speech.
And Steve, of Plantshill Crescent, Tile Hill, certainly doesn't plan to be
tongue-tied when it comes to promoting his unique talent.
The actors expertly manage to track simultaneously the ever-shifting emotional underscore and the stream of non sequiturs that pass for conversation between love-starved people too
tongue-tied to ask for what they want.
