Just read 'lipse' for 'lisp.'

Is that something you just did, as in <RED>, or something you are inviting us to do, as in <REED>? Anyway, I gave it a try myself and I'm still tied up.

Do you suppose there is any connection between "lipse" and "ellipsis", I mean, apart from the fact that they are both embarrassing slips?

You must be reading Chaucer again, Wordwind.