sibilant

• “He spoke in sibilant English mocking my clumsy Arabic.”

  I Was Sold on the Slave Block « Official Harry Harrison News Blog

• “P; and air from the mouth be forced between them; the W sibilant is produced, as pronounced by the Germans, and by some of the inferiour people of London, and ought to have an appropriated character as thus [*].”

  Note XV

• “If the point of the tongue be placed between the teeth, and air from the mouth be forced between them, the Th sibilant is produced, as in thigh, and should have a proper character, as [*].”

  Note XV

• “Although an striking feature of Castilian Spanish and other variants of Spanish, respectively....have perserved the "sibilant" -s”

  languagehat.com: ITALIAN DIALECTS.

• “S: The nineteenth letter of the alphabet, which is called a sibilant, because it makes a hissing sound like a goose.”

  The Silly Syclopedia

• “A slight aspirate preceding and modifying the sibilant, which is, however, the stronger of the two consonants; _e.g. hsing_ = _hissing_ without the first _i_,”

  Myths and Legends of China

• “They are low and insinuating, a kind of sibilant utterance:”

  Tentation de saint Antoine. English

• “The Hebrew text suggests that the difference consisted in the different articulation of the "sibilant": although the conquered heard sh, they could produce only s.”

  OUPblog

• “There will be new abuse, lithe, literary violence, men feeling compelled to punch her soul, to bruise it with sibilant syllables, "so sentimental.”

  Fictionaut: Heron Dream

• “With that, Nick Tosches, in his world weary, permanently pissed-off, slightly sibilant urban drawl, riffed through about 6 or 7 short poems, tearing each page in half and throwing them to the floor as he finished reading.”

  The Huffington Post: Binky Philips: Nick Tosches Saves The Last Dance For Satan

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