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Comer chez el Agüelo

Los comensales: ¿Puedo mojar en tu huevo? Los postres: Gelat de framgüesa.

Why are the bulk of misspellings of Samuel Johnson (Jhonson) by South Asians and Spanish speakers?

Curious that someone values someone else’s wisdom enough to quote him, but not enough to spell his name correctly. Checking in Google Books, is it that the French, the Germans, etc don’t (pretend to) read Johnson, don’t care to confess it, prefer carefully constructed argument over appeals to authorities?

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.

How many days to save the euro?

I think I know what a day is, but I’m not so sure about “save” and “euro.”

How I tried to vote PP and ended up electing a freaking dentist

Blueout in the election of the beards.

Filipinos vs filipinos

¿Cómo distinguir a los súbditos de Felipe II en general de los naturales de las islas? Quiero explicarle a alguien que saldrá hablando como un filipino de la primera categoría.

Lexical roots of the eurozone crisis

PIIGS > stable > stability pacts. (If voters consistently elect free-spending hucksters who promise they’ve found a cure for boom & bust etc etc, then isn’t moaning about a democratic deficit as the bailiffs move in ever so slightly pathetic? They had their democracy, but they traded it in for pizza and the X Factor.)

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