March tweets
More Czechs, Spike Jones, Brexit, burning Guy, Child Ballads, copyright, Robin Hood’s two pricks, and so on.
Tag: etymology
Organ-grinding tweets for February
More untruths & idle opinions.
Organ-grindish twitterings for November
Dominated by a sojourn in the Czech Republic.
The Singing Organ-Grinder’s tweets for October
More rubbish.
July tweets from London’s Singing Organ-Grinder
Etymology of Trippier
Does Kieran have a goatherd or a tripe merchant in his paternal line?
June tweets from London’s Singing Organ-Grinder
More barrel organ news from Hackney. Includes first posts from Top 10 Russian Football Song series.
Top 10 Russian football songs: No. 9: Okolofutbola (“Round Football”, ahem) by Feduk (2013)
The hiphop theme of a cinematic tribute to Spartak ultras: “Stand in line with your brother and don’t take one step back / Russian brigades, like a bumper, ram our opponent.” Extras: Russian football hooliganism’s English roots; Anglicisms in a Russian hooligan lexicon; and use of “hooligan” in Russian before English, in an 1892 decree issued by a Petersburg mayor of Scottish descent.
The Devil’s Corbyn of Hell
A General Election post, featuring Edgar Allan Poe, a manual for medieval female anchorites, the RSPB, Le Corbusier, Magpie Corvid, a corvine conspiracy, and Tolkien’s Nazgûl.
Insuring Amsterdam
Stiltsville in various Germans. With a filthy joke, and several less filthy ones.