George Washington's Speech Impediment

Fri Feb 22 18:19:39 UTC 2008

My recollection is that it was quite bad even by 18th C. standards, but I'd have to check to be sure.

  It wasn't laffably bad tho.

  JL

Mark Mandel <thnidu at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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How did it compare with that of his contemporaries?

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Jonathan Lighter
wrote:

> I've seen exx. of his spelling. IIRC, it was pretty bad, at least in his
> youth.
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