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Many will spot the show’s lisping child as Winthrop from “The Music Man”; fewer may recognize the Schmigadoonean exclamation “yee honk” as joining two oaths from that play, “yee gods” and “great honk.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 16, 2021

“That was my intention — I’m a little prec-iousss about that,” he says, laughing as he drops a quick lisping impression of Gollum.

From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2021

He gave each character such a unique voice and accent that I can still hear his lisping version of Gollum in Tolkien’s trilogy.

From Salon • Sep. 28, 2019

Without the lisping charm of Asher Keddie's Ita, Paper Giants' second – and far less historically compelling – peek into the world of female-led publishing is not much to look at.

From The Guardian • Jun. 10, 2013

The winds, to the tiniest, lisping baby breath had left the earth.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston