Breogán redux
Featuring Sophie Tucker’s “There’s Something Spanish In My Eyes”
Category: Languages, mankind, empires, the family
Fierro favoured slightly over hierro/yerro after vowel in early modern Spanish?
It sounds better.
An old Dutch A&E joke
And the abbot who thinks little of his neighbour the emperor’s worldly ambitions.
Basque prefers shitting blood to speaking Spanish
Better hurry up with that Darwin Award.
“Let’s roll!” in Spanish
“¡Dale al asno!” ruled out in the first round.
![No woman, still die: a travesty of Henry Heath's <a href='http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=1661443&partid=1&searchText=ahithophel+in+the+dumps&fromADBC=ad&toADBC=ad&titleSubject=on&physicalAttribute=on&numpages=10&images=on&orig=%2fresearch%2fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx¤tPage=1'>Ahithophel [Wellington] in the dumps</a>.](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-4_GUKxjp4-Q/TnMWud5xHfI/AAAAAAAAw6E/Gpm83jNs_cw/s1000/AN00684413_001_l.jpg "No woman, still die: a travesty of Henry Heath's <a href='http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=1661443&partid=1&searchText=ahithophel+in+the+dumps&fromADBC=ad&toADBC=ad&titleSubject=on&physicalAttribute=on&numpages=10&images=on&orig=%2fresearch%2fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx¤tPage=1'>Ahithophel [Wellington] in the dumps</a>.")
Spanish comprehension exercise
Do Welsh expats incline to rain-drenched hills?
Nature vs nurture in the Italian Jones tribe.
Does historical reenactment extend to speech?
Early modern editing for the creative anachronism market: judicious modernisation, sympathetically documented transcription, or Talk Like A Pirate?
Presenting authorial & editorial notes in a Kindle edition of a 16th century bilingual text
Hints gratefully received…
Cameron to use whales to stop the violence?
Bonus: a rather old cetation/transportacean joke.