i-i-is

Updated: May 1, 2025

It was now discovered for the first, that this singular passenger stammered and stuttered very badly, which, perhaps, was the cause of his reservedness. "Wha-wha-what i-i-is this f-f-for?" "Spread-eagle, sir," said the Greenlander, thinking that those few words would at once make the matter plain. "Wha-wha-what that me-me-mean?"

Herman Melville - Redburn. His First Voyage