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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
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Posted: Fri Aug 10 11:13:39 1984
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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'