10 Another part of this speech way, now long forgotten, was the slurred s which came to be called the cavalryman’s lisp. Perhaps borrowed from Castilian Spanish, this curious mannerism was adopted by England’s equestrian class, and persisted in fashionable cavalry regiments even into the twentieth century.
11 Raymond Williams, “The Growth of ‘Standard English,’” in The Long Revolution (rev. ed., New York, 1966), 214-29.
12 Henry Van Schaack, The Life of Peter Van Schaack (New York, 1842). 162-63.