2011 – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Autonomous street organ

By one Martin Preston: The machine is coming along very nicely, judging by the photos being posted over on Feisbuk. One of my eardrums exploded in August after a surfeit of Ivor Cutler, but they’re hoping to put in a new one in 4-6 months time which, if it doesn’t accurately render real sounds into…

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.

Bin can cover -> puede cubrir

Over at Language Log.

An old Dutch A&E joke

And the abbot who thinks little of his neighbour the emperor’s worldly ambitions.