Alex
No opinion on the lisping thing then?
Terry
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>>>I went to Spain and I've met people from Spain and my experience has been that they speak better Spanish than most (if only they would drop that th! *G*). Also my experience in El Salavador, Nicaragua, Chile, Bolivia (La Paz is all I can talk about there) and Costa Rica was similar.
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>>I've heard, and I don't know how apochryphal this is, that in Spain they pronounce "c" as "th" because it became fashionable some time back, because the king of Spain had a lisp. It's not pronounced thus in the Americas because they were colonised before the lisping king's reign. Sounds daft, I know! :-)
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