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A NON-LISPER A CLERGYMAN, with usually an exceptionally distinct utterance, was observed one Sunday morning at the beginning of the service to speak with a pronounced lisp. After a time it wore off, and his speech became as clear as usual. Has it ever occurred to anyone what a very simple thing may cause a lisp? The case in question was owing to a tiny slice of lozenge sticking to the roof of the mouth just to the left of, and close to, the front tooth. This almost imperceptible impediment was sufficient to render the speech so indistinct as to resemble a marked lisp. Of course as the lozenge dissolved the lisp became no longer observable, and the speech assumed its ordinary clearness.
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Lisping. Nature 36, 126 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/036126a0
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