Pechelingue – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Vygos Cagados, a jingoistic Dutch print celebrating the Battle of Vigo Bay (1702)

But why, and for whom, would a Dutchman pun on Vigo / figo (fig) when both spelling and pronunciation of the latter were long obsolete in standard Spanish?

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Nicknackerynoo

Apart from wondering how small a tsunami has to be to become a mere wave, whether the relative accessibility of trees should not be worked into the stats, and what a pechelingue was doing off Galicia, I was curious as to the origins of Nick’s figure for literacy in Spain–20% in 1606. The 1860 Spanish…