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  2. Lisp - Wikipedia

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    Interdental lisping is produced when the tip of the tongue protrudes between the front teeth and dentalized lisping is produced when the tip of the tongue just touches the front teeth. The transcription in the International Phonetic Alphabet for interdental sibilants is [s̪͆] and [z̪͆] and for simple dental sibilants is [s̟] and [z̟] .

  3. International Phonetic Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    It was devised by the International Phonetic Association in the late 19th century as a standard written representation for the sounds of speech. [1] The IPA is used by lexicographers, foreign language students and teachers, linguists, speech–language pathologists, singers, actors, constructed language creators, and translators. [2] [3]

  4. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2012 July 19

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    There is also the whispering type speech patterns of certain females such as Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield which when used by men is described as lisping. Speech patterns are acquired, so one can learn to speak in a hushed voice. But speech patterns are not necessarily acquired consciously, so to describe them as affected in all cases is ...

  5. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks - Wikipedia

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    The third gives symbols listed elsewhere in the table that are similar to it in meaning or appearance, or that may be confused with it; The fourth (if present) links to the related article(s) or adds a clarification note.

  6. President Donald Trump's newfound lisp sets internet aflame - AOL

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    President Trump unveiled something new during his speech Wednesday, and it's too much for Twitter to handle.

  7. Transcription (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Transcription should not be confused with translation, which means representing the meaning of text from a source-language in a target language, (e.g. Los Angeles (from source-language Spanish) means The Angels in the target language English); or with transliteration, which means representing the spelling of a text from one script to another.

  8. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    English parts of speech are based on Latin and Greek parts of speech. [40] Some English grammar rules were adopted from Latin , for example John Dryden is thought to have created the rule no sentences can end in a preposition because Latin cannot end sentences in prepositions.

  9. Rhotacism - Wikipedia

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    Rhotacism used to happen when l was preceded by a consonant, as in the word ingrese (English), but modern speech has lost that characteristic. Another change related to r was the shortening of the geminated rr, which is not rhotacism. Italian errore, guerra and marrone "error", "war", "brown" become erore, guera and marone.