Use of both ceceo and seseo by individual speakers without register distinction

Noted the other day in the speech of a couple of elderly working class immigrants from Cádiz in the Poblenou district of Barcelona. Ceceo (the characteristic Andalusian lisp which assimilates /s/ and /θ/ to [θ]) has traditionally been considered socially inferior to seseo (assimilation to [s], associated particularly with Seville and New World dialects), as…

Curses lifted on archive and library users

Instead of having to forge the special card issued to Genuine Researchers, anyone can now get into archives pertaining to the Ministry of Culture with a passport or other state ID. Edmund Lester Pearson’s old librarian ( “No person younger than 20 years … is on any pretext to enter the Library. Be suspicious of…

Chicken fax

I guess I thought this photo was freaky–chicken being stuffed in machine?–but there are quite a few chicken fax services out there. Kentucky Fried Chicken Fax in Peoria, Illinois also does buffalo wings, but no porcine pinions.