Historical clue formulations

• Was hard to understand, in a way — 2023-03-31
• Like drunken speech — 2022-02-20
• Couldn't shpeak shtraight [hic]? — 2011-07-25
• Cast aspersions on — 1999-07-08
• Indistinct, as speech — 1996-09-10
• Shpoke like thish — 1996-05-12
• Like a drunk's speech — 1995-01-29