Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1.chuqui 4/7/84; site voder.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!nsc!voder!gino From: gino@voder.UUCP (Gino Bloch) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: the King's Spanish Message-ID: <303@voder.UUCP> Date: Mon, 13-Aug-84 20:10:13 EDT Article-I.D.: voder.303 Posted: Mon Aug 13 20:10:13 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Aug-84 06:37:10 EDT References: <349@watdcsu.UUCP> Organization: National Semiconductor, Santa Clara Lines: 7 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.