Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site watdcsu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watdcsu!rpiche From: rpiche@watdcsu.UUCP (R. Piche [Civ Eng]) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: the King's Spanish Message-ID: <349@watdcsu.UUCP> Date: Fri, 10-Aug-84 11:13:39 EDT Article-I.D.: watdcsu.349 Posted: Fri Aug 10 11:13:39 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Aug-84 00:15:38 EDT Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 8 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'