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Anonymous asked in Education & ReferenceWords & Wordplay · 1 decade ago

Whose idea was it to put an "S" in the word "lisp"?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    The word lisp (in some form) has been with us as long as we have had English--since the word is cognate with its fellows in other Germanic languages. It has been found inwriting, according to the OED, as early as ca. 1100. As for the cruelty of using a hard-to-say word to describe the speech problems of those who find it hard to say words, that's pretty much the point, isn't it?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    someone with lisp trying to say lip?

  • Dawn G
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Same guy who decide how to spell Phonetics!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    we can remove u as the culprit

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    some very sick man

  • booh
    1 decade ago

    mine

  • ♥mcmanda♥
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    some word for something else. Idk whose idea it was....but it was someones!

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