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How to pronounce lisp

“lisp” pronunciation in American and Australian English

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“lisp” in real sentences

234 clips in the index · 3 American · 1 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.

  1. lisp, and she had the lisp, but I was like, "Oh, my God."

    The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

  2. Terrible name with the lisp.

    The Graham Norton Show

  3. of lisp and in fact we have a subset of lisp which we call cleverly subel

    Lex Fridman

  4. uh Fortran and lisp and lisp itself ended up being a transcription of the of the

    Neelakantan Krishnaswami

Words that sound like “lisp”

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