The secret language of doctors
Why and how the 17th century Portuguese tropical medicine specialist, Aleixo de Abreu, tried to prevent proles from reading his cure for scurvy.
Category: Languages
Chiquito de la Calzada’s trademark ‘rl’ suffix for words ending in ‘a’ or ‘o’
Is it a personal hiperandalucismo, or is there somewhere in Málaga where everyone speaks like this?
Why I’m called Trevor
Or, rather, how my grandfather seems to have been named after a minor railway station.
An unusual case of risus sardonicus
Is Mr Barbecue Bunny’s sardonic grin pre- or post-mortem?
Ghit goes generic
Real Academia Española contemplating eliminating accents
And they’re going descriptive, bit by bit.
Hide the ducks, the musicians are coming
Son of a broker
A Dutch compliment becomes a French insult.
Pan di Spagna?
A Sicilian says it ain’t.
Raphael tortures Aquarius, Matt Monro destroys Libre (subtitled)
Do Spanish speakers get more excited about “defective” accents than English speakers?