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On the other hand…

Why the mob may want to consider murder and mayhem. With apologies to the Archpriest of Hita.

Leonardo Da Vinci’s plagiarism of la Moreneta almost foretold

Pío Baroja got pretty damn close to the Catalunacy of José Luis Espejo in La dama errante.

Battles of the if-only-they’d-been-homophones: Mars vs Marx

An optimist might say that the chart shows a Roman deity giving way to a late Old Testament prophet giving way to scientific interest in the world(s) about us.

Only sensible use for cheap red wine at 30C+

Mrs Casas says mix 1 cup lemon juice, 1 cup water, 2 cups red (Murcian renal, for example), 1 wedged peach, 4 lemon slices, 3 tbsp sugar, refrigerate for a couple of hours, drink. She also does a splendid iced coffee. The budget booze base is still without third party contributions, suggesting that none of…

What to do about the miners

Now the Spanish government has adopted my scheme to reduce the number of ayuntamientos, they will surely be on the line soon to purchase my ancient and well-documented plan to provide work for miners and reduce emissions, which has been pirated by at least one other joker: sequester and crack CO2, lump the carbon, and…

Historians who make stuff up, novelists who can’t novelise

El misteri de l’assassinat del bisbe de Barcelona by Ponç Feliu and Miquel Mir

A curious Spanish, Trafalgar-era, overshot waterwheel

Someone please explain to me how it works.

Hot news from the executors of Messrs Sapir & Whorf

ÎºÏÎ¯ÏƒÎ¹Ï‚? It’s their fault for neologising.

Don’t plagiarise from the poor

Introducing Secular thought, an ancient journal of the Canadian heathen.

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.