Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo on George Borrow

In between pints of Summer Lightning I’ve been reading bits of Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo’s account of heresy in Spain, Historia de los heterodoxos españoles. Menéndez Pelayo does not allow himself the populist virulence of George Borrow‘s anti-Papism, but one does have a delicious sense of scores being settled when he writes re Borrow’s dissemination of…

Yetimology

yetimology: [n.] The study of those abominable words that are large, wild and probably fictitious. (I hoped it was going to be funnier, but summer’s over.)