Haltingly vs Lisp - What's the difference?
haltingly | lisp |
In a halting or limping manner; full of pauses or hesitation.
To pronounce the sibilant letter ‘s’ imperfectly; to give ‘s’ and ‘z’ the sounds of ‘th’ () — a defect common amongst children.
To speak with imperfect articulation; to mispronounce, as a child learning to talk.
* Alexander Pope
To speak hesitatingly and with a low voice, as if afraid.
* Drayton
To utter with imperfect articulation; to express with words pronounced imperfectly or indistinctly, as a child speaks; hence, to express by the use of simple, childlike language.
* Tyndale
To speak with reserve or concealment; to utter timidly or confidentially.
As an adverb haltingly
is in a halting or limping manner; full of pauses or hesitation.As a noun lisp is
the habit or an act of lisping.As a verb lisp is
to pronounce the sibilant letter ‘s’ imperfectly; to give ‘s’ and ‘z’ the sounds of ‘th’ ({{IPA|/θ /ð/|lang=en}}) — a defect common amongst children.As a proper noun Lisp is
a functional programming language with a distinctive parenthesized syntax, much used in artificial intelligence.haltingly
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- He spoke haltingly of his battle with cancer and its affect on his family.
- I just learned how to read Korean this summer and am still new to the language, so I still read and pronounce the words haltingly when I try to read a sentence in Korean. I take over a minute, whereas one with an excellent command of the Korean language would take 12.5 seconds.
lisp
English
Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
(en verb)- As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, / I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came.
- Lest when my lisping , guilty tongue should halt.
- to speak unto them after their own capacity, and to lisp words unto them according as the babes and children of that age might sound them again
- to lisp treason