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On a trip to Germany in 2000, we drove near a town called "Stotterheim" and discovered it is mentioned in the history of Martin Luther. Stutterheim family - The Stutterheims are an old German family. Frederik Johan Stutterheim, (born 1702 or 1705) is the ancestor of the Dutch family. The town may have been established by a family of that name.

Retired Lutheran pastor, Nelson R. Sulouff, sent the following anecdote about driving past this town in Germany.

In 1978 I was on a bus tour with Lutheran ministers and their wives visiting the sites in Germany where the 16th C. reformer, Martin Luther, had lived and worked. As we passed through the forest area near Stotterheim, Germany, a thunderstorm broke around us. At a particularly loud clap of thunder, one of the pastors jokingly parodied the words Martin Luther reportedly spoke in 1505 when caught in a thunderstorm near Stotterheim. The pastor shouted, "God save me and I will become a monk! " Of course everyone on the bus, being thoroughly familiar with this episode in Martin Luther's life, laughed loudly. But what really rocked the bus with laughter was when his wife, sitting two rows behind him with another pastor's wife, shouted back, "You will not!!"

Stutterheim, Eastern Cape of South Africa was settled by German immigrants (Vanessa M (personal correspondence, December 17, 2003).

"The town was originally named for Baron Richard Carl Gustav Ludwig Wilhelm Julius von Stutterheim, who became a Major-General in the British Army as the head of the British German Legion and spent eight months in South Africa before returning to Germany." Stutterheim has "a population of 46,730 in South Africa, situated in the Border region of the Eastern Cape province." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stutterheim)

The Stutter Cemetery is one mile east of Central Ave., on the south side of Pleasant View Drive in Lancaster, Erie County, New York. It was an established cemetery from 1840-1901 and is the final resting place for several people, including at least two "Stutters" - George Stutter, born 17 June 1843 and Henry, son of George and Elizabeth Stutter, born 21 Nov 1861 ? died Mar 1865

There is a street in Thirsk, North Yorkshire, UK called 'Stammergate'. I have no idea where it came from but 'gate' is often found as the end of street names normally in old walled cities like York. Claire Tupling, December 14, 2000

The street of Mateos Gago in Sevilla, Spain. The name means "Mateo the Stutterer." Courtesy Aquiles Iglesias.

Paul Young while searching the U.S. Geological Survey on-line database of place names in the US discovered that Stutter Spring is a spring in Gila County, Arizona, near Chrome Butte.

Stutter Shoal, United Arab Emirates: Geocode - Latitude: 24.241944 / Longitude: 52.432778.

A shoal is a shallow place in a body of water (typically composed of sand and sometimes called a "sandbar"). They can appear in the sea, in a lake or in a river and develop where currents promote deposits of material (sand, silt, gravel, or even boulders). A shoal can be a hazard to navigation. (Information from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoal)