lallations

Noun

lallation (countable and uncountable, plural lallations)

1. The incorrect pronunciation of the letter "r" so that it sounds like an "l" (or "w").
   • She spoke Aramaic with a lazy lallation, affected by many because it was the natural speech of a class.1918, Earl Williams, chapter 19, in The Court of Belshazzar: A Romance of the Great Captivity, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, page 199
2. Baby-talk or gibberish.
   • When you talke with your children you expect from them no congruence or quaint language, yet you are often pleased to heare them prattle, & are delighted with their lisping Ideoms. This makes me hope that you will dispence with the Lallation & Low dialect of this babe, whose tone is rude, yet his...1648, Robert Baron, Erotopaignion, Or the Cyprian Academy, London: J. Hardesty et al., “To the Ladies and Gentlewoemen of England,”