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From: gino@voder.UUCP (Gino Bloch)
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Subject: Re: the King's Spanish
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Date: Mon, 13-Aug-84 20:10:13 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 13 20:10:13 1984
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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.