The English School, Barcelona struggles with English

I liked this bit about the school spelling competition: Obviously, spelling in our three languages causes problems, but these are gradually overcomed with a high standard being obtained. The site is full of simple errors, so that the school’s claim to offer “a high quality academical, linguistic and cultural education” seems dubious in at least…

Boingboing: 17M = 17,000

Ms Jardin: The demonstrations were not limited to Madrid. Below: 17,000 en Sevilla … from Antonio Rull’s photostream. One wonders whether the writer may not have rather lost touch with her family name’s linguistic heritage, and she’s duly outed in comments by hewtwit: I live around the corner from there in seville (plaza de encarnacion)…