Fierro favoured slightly over hierro/yerro after vowel in early modern Spanish?
It sounds better.
Tag: phonetics
Brits pronouncing Barça
It’s Barker vs Barser, but you can’t blame the proto-Lebanese.
Call me Trebots
A rather nice example of apocopation and suffixation in Catalan Spanish.
¡Tú imitas tan bien a los animales! ¿No serás … aztor?
A phonological curiosity from coastal Cantabria, with speculation as to the supernatural powers of María Teresa Fernández de la Vega.
J in Catalan Spanish
Immortalised in the “disastrous cowboy” genre of jokes.
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.