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Susan Sorissnessons.
It's onomatopoeia.
i know i'm going to get downgraded for this answer but i think people with lisp have this type of force over me...i find lisp very attractive.
Oh yeah!! lol! You'd think that there would have been better things it could have been called!
Thuffering Thuckotash! You are right.
LOL....that's a very astute observation! I juth don't know how thumone could do thuch a cruel thoughtleth thing.
Thats one f the funniest and most insightful things I have ever read.
the same person who only came up with one word for thesaurus
Very clever,lol, it should be a "th". + :o)
the same person that made abreviate such a long word, and spelled phonetic, it should be fonetic!
Probably someone who made fun of someone like me who has a lisp. Because I got teased so much in grade school, I taught myself how to talk without it being noticed so much.
Hilariousssssssssssssssss!
You are killing me I th-wear!
I have a th-itch in my th-omouch!
well picked up, it is abit ironic isn't it!!
hahah good one
Mine. Mwa ha ha ha ha!
i never thought of that, thats pretty funny and cruel at same time
a cruel person who thought it would be funny
I think it was Murphy, I mean look at all the trouble his laws get us in to.
The same who put it in "s-s-tutt-er".
It's an old word; it comes from Germanic and Nordic roots. Here's what the etymology book says:
'late O.E. awlyspian, from wlisp (adj.) "lisping," probably of imitative origin (cf. M.Du., O.H.G. lispen, Dan. læspe, Swed. läspa). The noun is first attested 1625.'
It's onomatopoeia
I know it should have been spelled lithp
probably the same guy who decided to name the fear of long words hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia
its almost sadistic lol
lol... was just talkin bout this with my mates today... to answer your question... sorry i have no idea.
And who's idea was it to spell "phonetic" with a "ph?"
Some guy on drugs is who.
Alonzo Church - List Processing Language :P
Somebody very cruel, that's for sure.
LOL Yeah! It should be spelled 'lithp' !
I did, I also let the dogs out. Why?
SssSsSatan
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