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  • Lisping schmindie horror bag Jamie Oliver is cooking up a stinker of a stew in Hollywood USA.

    Watch Out England, Jamie Oliver Thinks You’re All Quite Drunk 2006

  • Lisping he defined elsewhere in his Problems as an inability to master a letter, and “hesitancy” or stuttering as “the inability to join one letter to another with sufficient speed.”

    Knotted Tongues Benson Bobrick 1995

  • Lisping he defined elsewhere in his Problems as an inability to master a letter, and “hesitancy” or stuttering as “the inability to join one letter to another with sufficient speed.”

    Knotted Tongues Benson Bobrick 1995

  • Lisping infancy learns the vocabulary of abusive epithets, and struts the

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

  • In Negligent Lisping, this inability properly to imitate correct speech processes, results in the substitution of an incorrect sound for the correct one with consequent faulty formation of words.

    Stammering, Its Cause and Cure Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue

  • Lisping is a matter of defective speech, and although reading aloud and dramatic recitations help, it is best to consult a specialist if ordinary methods fail to prevent it.

    Book of Etiquette, Volume 2 Lillian Eichler Watson

  • In Neurotic Lisping, the muscular movements are less spasmodic than in cases of stuttering, partaking more of the cramped sticking movement, common in stammering.

    Stammering, Its Cause and Cure Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue

  • Falstaff flouted the effeminate fops of his day as "Lisping hawthorn buds that smell like Bucklersbury in simple time."

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • This defective pronunciation in Negligent Lisping is caused either by a FAILURE or an INABILITY to observe others who speak correctly.

    Stammering, Its Cause and Cure Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue

  • Neurotic Lisping is often found to be combined with stammering or stuttering, which is quite logical, since it is similar, both as to CAUSE and as to the presence of a

    Stammering, Its Cause and Cure Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue

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