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For anyone short of kindling. Corsican popular song, a Burgundy micropatois, hussar dressage training, lots of (mainly 19th century) colour plates.

All our disaster

A Perry polemic is always wonderful, but while it’s quite clear what he thinks Europe, Italy etc etc shouldn’t do, as usual I can’t work out what he thinks they should. (This still applies, but only peripherally here.)

El revólvel rutilizado apareció en el asiento trasero de su coche particular

I obviously don’t know that much about you, but I can imagine someone saying this in all seriousness. OK, only 283 ghits, some attributable to Ms Scan, some to Ms Spelling (Labriego denuncia le quitan revólvel is butterfly-beautiful – see the body). But revólvel is feasible, although quite unlikely in Old Castile (?): La siento…