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		mc32 on March 2, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Banning words won’t make the world more just It's the new prescriptivists who want to set the rules for the commoners to follow -reminds me of the apocryphal story about a Spanish king of some sort who had a lisp and in turn, the population not wanting to offend him began speaking with a lisp so Spanish ended up with a "th" sound where other romance languages did not.

herewulf on March 3, 2023 [–]

That's apocryphal. Sound change in language is constant and "s" and "th" are close sounds. This was just a natural process in Castilian Spanish.

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