What does the word lisp mean?

Answer 1

List is a noun and refers to a pronounciation defect in which s is pronounced like th in thick and z is pronounced like th in this.

It can have several causes...Six year olds ALWAYS lisp when they lose their two front teeth, because those teeth are used in the formation of the letter "s."

Lisping can also be caused by wearing braces, or teeth that have grown in improperly.

Frontal lisp: A frontal lisp is produced when the tongue pushes out between the front teeth when saying "s" and "z" and sounds like a "th." For example, "thoap" for "soap" or "houth" for "house."

Lateral lisp: A lateral lisp is produced when the tongue lays flat and protrudes between the teeth, causing air to escape into the cheeks rather than straight out of the mouth when producing "s," "z," "sh," "ch" and "j". The result is speech that is distorted, wet and "bubbly" sounding.

If a child without missing teeth is lisping, it could be because a thumb or pacifier in a child's mouth has trained the tongue into wrong positions.

Sometimes it is just imitative behavior from being around other lispers. (As in the case of Castilian Spanish.)

Speech therapy can correct most cases of lisping; otherwise, speech pathologists can investigate the problem further.

Answer 2

lisp [lisp]
n (plural lisps)
1. speech defect: a minor speech defect in which the sounds “s” and “z” are pronounced like the soft “th” sound in “third” or “thick.”
Small children whose front teeth have not come in yet often have a temporary lisp.
2. speech sound: the sound produced when “s” and “z” are pronounced like the soft “th” sound in “third” or “thick”

Answer 3

as a noun:
1 : a speech defect or affectation characterized by lisping
2 : a sound resembling a lisp

as a verb:
intransitive verb
1 : to pronounce the sibilants \s\ and \z\ imperfectly especially by turning them into \th\ and \*\
2 : to speak falteringly, childishly, or with a lisp
transitive verb : to utter falteringly or with a lisp

Answer 4

It means you can't say your s's.

I've always wondered why lisp has an s in it.
People who have this speech impedement can't say the word properly.

Answer 5

it is a computer language created solely for LISt-Processing, That's how the name LISP came.

Answer 6

2 definations;
1)computre programming language
2)speech defect

Answer 7

a fault in the way someone speaks which makes them pronounce (s) sounds as (th).

Answer 8

to pronounce 's' and 'z' imperfectly, by giving them the sounds of 'th' and 'dh'.

Answer 9

It's an ai language.