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As people age, the muscles of the inner face, lips and face tend to atrophe - assuming that lung capacity has also diminished, the person is trying harder to produce sound - without the ability to form 'tight' muscle grouping for annunciation. One of the most noticable side-effects is the whistle-lisp.

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