I can thay it now, I thed it wunth!

Another plan was to twist the numeral one into an ordinal. For instance:—

Search through the works of Thackeray—you’ll find a rhyme to month;

He tells us of Phil Fogarty, of the fighting onety-oneth!

A parallel lisp is as follows:—

“You can’t,” says Tom to lisping Bill,

“Find any rhyme for month.”

“A great mithtake,” was Bill’s reply;

“I’ll find a rhyme at onth.”

And