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Norman Thayer

Ethel Thayer. Sounds like I have a lisp, doesn't it?

— On Golden Pond

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker repeats Ethel Thayer and asks whether the name sounds like a lisp. The question plays on the sound of the name without diagnosing a speech condition.

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