rpiche@watdcsu.UUCP (R. Piche [Civ Eng]) (08/10/84)
more on Martin Taylor's assertion on Geo. II being the model for the King's English: I had heard that the lisp ('ceceo') characteristic of Castilian spanish is also the result of courtiers' mimicing of a royal speech impediment. .....Robert Piche'
gino@voder.UUCP (Gino Bloch) (08/14/84)
If the Castilian lisp was the result of imitating a king's lisp then why aren't Castilian s's pronounced like Castilian c's? The hypothesis I like is that about the time the Americas were being colonized (invaded?), c's before front vowels were pronounced `ts' as in German today. The pronunciation started changing in the XVI century - but differently in the two hemispheres.