25/08/2014 – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Early Hispanic bad loans and the Berbers: how we got from “el cadi” (the judge) to “el alcalde” (the the mayor)

Were the medieval Spanish arseholes? enquires anti-patriot Jesús P. Zamora Bonilla re the agglutination of the Arabic definite article in Spanish Arabisms – here’s a list of al- & ar- nouns. No, replies Federico Corriente, Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords: Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (2008), it were the Berbers what was…