It is said that the Spanish pronunciation of 's' as 'th' originated in the 16th Century from a collective desire of the people not to want their lisping king, Philip II, to feel special. An envoy would have gone round saying we're all going to lisp now, everyone, thtarting from now; that meanth you and the retht of Thpain. Got it?

'I can't do that. I'll sound like a girl,' says one touchy male subject of the Spanish kingdom.

'Well that might sound politically correct now but sometime in the future, believe me, it will not.'

'Not doing it.'

'Look just because you lisp doesn't automatically mean you're effeminate.'

And the envoy was right because Mike Tyson has a lisp and he was the kind of person who could beat you to a pulp and eat your ears... (Continued at http://www.tinybangtheories.com/2012/04/reign-in-thpain.html)

Best Wishes,
Paul (Ed.)