October 2011 – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Anyone got video of the Carlos Tévez incident?

Someone wants to read his lips.

Interesting hints on pronouncing the Urdu q

Think of a bird or a bottle.

Breogán redux

Featuring Sophie Tucker’s “There’s Something Spanish In My Eyes”

Cool Eroski-Caprabo scam

“Buy one, get another cheaper” ain’t what it seems.

Fierro favoured slightly over hierro/yerro after vowel in early modern Spanish?

It sounds better.

Guillermo Carnero > Guillermo Sheep

There’s a poet MT massacre over at Fruela Fernández (h/t Carlos Ferrero). OK, we should be ignoring algorithm-generated MT for spam sites, but it’s a quiet day.

Typhoon Buttocks?

If only the Spanish nalga were also a Latin first declension noun.

Langston Hughes in Spain

Idealism vs realism as a Stalinist hack copes with the Italian bombing of Barcelona but struggles to explain why Moorish peasants are slaughtering Spanish workers in the battle for Madrid.