It’s good to see that some papers are spelling the name of the new president of the European parliament, Josep Borrell, with only one “l”. Borrel is Dutch for “drink”, including in the sense of a Friday afternoon booze-up.
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It may amuse you that “trombone” is currently more gnusworthy than “Borrell”