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In natural English speech, "lisp" appears in contexts such as: "about reading code, but I'm sure he approves. Peter Norvig, when he was young -- in grad school, whatever -- he was at Berkeley, and they had the source code of the Symbolics lisp machines. And so, he took a look at that. And again, it was just sort of what he was interested in.". Listen to the exact timestamped clip in the accompanying video with synchronized subtitles.

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about reading code, but I'm sure he approves. Peter Norvig, when he was young -- in grad school, whatever -- he was at Berkeley, and they had the source code of the Symbolics

lisp machines. And so, he took a look at that.

And again, it was just sort of what he was interested in.

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noun

The act or a habit of lisping.

“He used to have a terrible lisp before going to a speech therapist.”

verb

To pronounce the consonant ‘s’ imperfectly; to give ‘s’ and ‘z’ the sounds of ‘th’ (/θ/, /ð/). This is a speech impediment common among children.

“Until the age of 10, Dominic would lisp, but this was fixed by a speech therapist.”

verb

To speak with imperfect articulation; to mispronounce, such as a child learning to talk.

“As yet a Child, nor yet a Fool to Fame, / I liſp'd in Numbers, for the Numbers came.”

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