Pig – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Who’ll write me a drinking song?

MG posted this C15th verse the other day, and D suggested but didn’t provide music: Bring us in good ale, and bring us in good ale, Fore our blessed Lady sak, bring us in good ale. Bring us in no browne bred, for that is made of brane; Nor bring us in no whit bred,…

Unesco: some mother languages are more equal than others

Which is why Davidson L Hepburn will be welcomed to Barcelona next week.

The Arabs say Ø®Ø±ÙˆÙ, the Catalans say ovella, the Chinese say ç¾Š, 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?

Pig / lion / monkey / child wine

A Portuguese menagerie of sozzledness.

Pig foot gypsy charm

A Roger Ekirch, At day’s close: night in times past: “suspending the heart of a bullock or pig over the hearth, preferably stuck with pins and thorns”. Barcelona’s inquisition records and other (later) sources also contain a desperate screech of (sometimes living) cats and a wide range of barnyard animals with pins stuck into them…