Showing posts with label sibilants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sibilants. Show all posts

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Think of the patient when you name the disorder!

1.       The fear of long words is apparently called "hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia"
2.       People with a lisp can’t pronounce sibilants like the letter “s”.  Like the one in liSp.
3.       Spanish people don’t start words with consonant clusters starting with s – like SPanish
(not that being Spanish is any kind of disorder)
No point, just came across these three things in one day and thought it was strange.