go around the houses vs stammer

go around the houses

verb
  • Do something (especially talking) circuitously. 

stammer

verb
  • To keep repeating a particular sound involuntarily during speech. 

  • To utter with a stammer, or with timid hesitancy. 

noun
  • A speech defect whereby someone speaks with a stammer 

  • The involuntary repetition of a sound in speech. 

How often have the words go around the houses and stammer occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )