The universality of bu/bo/boo
The strange shrieks of theatrical monsters often don’t require translation.
Category: Languages, mankind, empires, the family
The naming of El Picazo
Mr Muñoz Soliva postulates the participation of some peculiarly phurtive Phoenicians.
Complicated family joke
Displaying Mexican contempt for the metropolis.
Viaje a México
Our itinerary, and that of Polo Polo on his Viaje a España.
Spidy Wasch
A bit of free association, or rambling, as it is more widely known.
Spanish mis-translation of Paolo Giordano The solitude of prime numbers
But where does the buck stop?
Spain, a nation of whores, soldiers and fools?
Spanish entries from the 1811 Dictionary of the vulgar tongue, with some fanciful etymological speculation and a mercifully brief bout of bar-room anthropology.
The war on arsematrons
After years of shilly-shallying, will France finally stand up to American fartpower?
PP twice as corrupt as PSOE?
If you believe crap like the stat in this post we’ll have you certified.
Free tapas map of Andalusia
Assuming RW’s liver survives the test.