13/04/2005 – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Language blog aggregator

I’m not on my home machine very much, so I’ve banged together a little, slow language blog aggregator to keep me amused.

Beasts of Europe

The word “cat” does not appear once in the proposed European constitution, although there are five “animals.” Here‘s a search tool.

Cheshire man Morris dances proud Spaniard into submission

Via We Are Free Morphemes: A Cheshire man sail’d into Spain, To trade for merchandise; When he arrived from the main A Spaniard him espies, A Spaniard him espies. The rest is here.

I had a large farmhouse in the Catalan mountains and I burnt it down

Francesc Pujols’ global taxonomy of women’s caresses.