Organ-grindish twitterings for November
Dominated by a sojourn in the Czech Republic.
Tag: latin
The Singing Organ-Grinder’s tweets for October
More rubbish.
El santo mocaro
Snot-nosed pseudo-saints in a Lingua Franca song by Juan del Encina.
Typhoon Buttocks?
Brits pronouncing Barça
It’s Barker vs Barser, but you can’t blame the proto-Lebanese.
The Arabs say خروÙ, the Catalans say ovella, the Chinese say 羊, but the Spanish apparently say Ovis orientalis aries
Can something be done about the nutters who use scientific rather than common names for Wikipedia articles, or is it time to call the whole thing off?
Alboraya Council’s tinker books
Ya en los nidos de antaño no hay pájaros ocaño
An elderly Andalusian’s way of saying “this year” may constitute early warning of global (or at least Peninsular) cataclysm, perhaps a regional franchise of the 2012 phenomenon.
Born, not made
The Spanish, making progress with a backlog of untranslated English snowclones?
The secret language of doctors
Why and how the 17th century Portuguese tropical medicine specialist, Aleixo de Abreu, tried to prevent proles from reading his cure for scurvy.
