I know that in Spain, King Ferdinand II spoke with a lisp, so everyone began speaking like him which explains the Spanish lisp.
However, accents often evolve. My grandfather is from Brooklyn and says "Woyk" instead of "Work" but that was common when he was growing up in Brooklyn. That form of the accent doesn't happen anymore.
A lot of people assume that the hippies in the 1960s sounded like a stereotypical stoned burnout. Most of them spoke fairly proper, but it was the following generation, the tweens and teens in the 1970s who especially began sounding a bit more burnout-ish, mostly in LA County, the valley, etc.
I imagine is has something to do with pop-culture and influences of authority, and it slowly evolves.
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That is a great question.
I know that in Spain, King Ferdinand II spoke with a lisp, so everyone began speaking like him which explains the Spanish lisp.
However, accents often evolve. My grandfather is from Brooklyn and says "Woyk" instead of "Work" but that was common when he was growing up in Brooklyn. That form of the accent doesn't happen anymore.
A lot of people assume that the hippies in the 1960s sounded like a stereotypical stoned burnout. Most of them spoke fairly proper, but it was the following generation, the tweens and teens in the 1970s who especially began sounding a bit more burnout-ish, mostly in LA County, the valley, etc.
I imagine is has something to do with pop-culture and influences of authority, and it slowly evolves.