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Lispers' Nemeses

A list of 60 words by bilby.

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  • she commented on the list lispers-nemeses

    Ooh, oh! felicific/infelicific, lasciviousness (or lasciviousnesses, for cruelty's sake), disputatiousness, disperses/dispersers, spinthariscopes, essences, pseudosciences, setaceous, subsidiaries

    July 11, 2008

  • bilby commented on the list lispers-nemeses

    Fine suggestions. Because I had speech therapy - not entirely successful - as a kid to overcome a lisp, thith litht is thomewhat thubjective. If I have to grit my teeth to say it, it's in. Thanks for your help.

    July 11, 2008

  • she commented on the list lispers-nemeses

    I'd thay ith's a litht worthy of Thylvethter J. Puthycat himthelf.

    July 11, 2008

  • plethora commented on the list lispers-nemeses

    Statistics/statistician.

    Those two gave me hell when I was about 13. I never had speech therapy, but my parental units declared my lisp gone after a couple of years. Nevertheless, I continued to lisp occasionally into early high school and year 7 maths was a lot of statistics so I had to work really hard to be able to say it.

    I thtill lapthe thometimeth. Ith not helpful that my name thtarth with Eth.

    July 11, 2008

  • chained_bear commented on the list lispers-nemeses

    I had speech therapy too, in elementary school. I remember it mostly because I would say my S's and Z's properly when in class, then go back to saying it my way when I left. I thought the whole thing was stupid. The teacher caught me at this I don't know how many times, until my classmates (who said Rs incorrectly) actually were dismissed from class because they improved. I realized then that this was not some kind of endless torture, and if I just did what she wanted, I'd be dismissed too. (A word I pronounced as "dithmithed," probably.) Anyway this new method caught on with me even outside of class--she eventually told me I didn't lisp anymore--and I stopped going. I still don't know if I lisp or not. And I can remember her face but not her name.

    P.S. I actually like this list now, so maybe I don't lisp anymore.

    July 11, 2008

  • seanahan commented on the list lispers-nemeses

    I also had speech therapy as a young child, I would say my r's as w's as the beginning of words. It went away pretty quickly, although maybe one in a thousand times I'll catch myself screwing it up.

    I suggest misses, that would be really tough to say with a lisp.

    July 14, 2008

  • pterodactyl commented on the list lispers-nemeses

    How about aesthetics? The sth sound is hard enough to pronounce without a lisp.

    July 14, 2008

  • plethora commented on the list lispers-nemeses

    Sixth.

    July 14, 2008

  • dontcry commented on the list lispers-nemeses

    I've got a bit of a lisp. Does anyone else find it curious that lisp belongs on this list?

    July 15, 2008

  • frogapplause commented on the list lispers-nemeses

    The catch-all term that speech therapists use now is "fluency disorder".

    July 15, 2008

  • bilby commented on the list lispers-nemeses

    Thanks pleth.

    Are you sure your nick's not plessora?

    July 15, 2008

  • missanthropist commented on the list lispers-nemeses

    Stuttering stumblefudge.

    July 15, 2008

  • oroboros commented on the list lispers-nemeses

    Sister Susie's sewing shirts for soldiers

    Such skill at sewing shirts as shy young sister Susie shows

    Some soldiers sent epistles said they'd rather sleep on thistles

    Than the saucy soft shirts for soldiers sister Susie sews

    July 15, 2008

  • plethora commented on the list lispers-nemeses

    Isn't she sewing silk shirts?

    July 16, 2008