A brief history of zoological shame
Featuring a Spanish view of the Saxons.
Category: Languages
Etimologia de “Munchkins”
Es que eran munchos.
Epic Occitan language fail
With a brief moan re online editions of Lou Tresor dóu Felibrige.
Spanish chat-up lines
Quién soy, quién somos
Catalañol for qui sóc, qui som.
The semantics of the Catalan and Andalusian “ea”
Negation without tears.
Alfonso XII, the lost king or a titty-crazed joker?
All you need to know about Nork-Town, Sandhurst.
Comer chez el Agüelo
Why are the bulk of misspellings of Samuel Johnson (Jhonson) by South Asians and Spanish speakers?
Interchangeability of nominative and genitive forms of Spanish patronymics?
I’m thinking of examples like Álvarez/Álvaro, Alves/ Alves, Benítez/Benito, Díaz/Diego, Domínguez/Domingo, Fernández/Fernando, Giménez/Ximeno, Gómez/Guillermo, González/Gonzalo, Gutiérrez/Gutierre, Henríquez/Henrique, Ibáñez/Juan, Juánez/Juan, López/Lope, Márquez/Marco, Martínez/Martín, Menéndez/Menendo, Muñoz/Muño, Núñez/Nuño, Ordóñez/Ordoño, Ortiz/Ortún, Peláez/Pelayo, Pérez/Pere, Ramírez/Ramiro, Rodríguez/Rodrigo, Ruiz/Ruy, Sánchez/Sancho, Suárez/Suero, Vázquez/Vasco, Velázquez/Velasco.