Spelling – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

March tweets

More Czechs, Spike Jones, Brexit, burning Guy, Child Ballads, copyright, Robin Hood’s two pricks, and so on.

Tatraplan by Blahoslaw Rozboril & Josef Daňka at the Pražák Palace bit of the Moravian Gallery in Brno.

London organ-grinding tweets for October 2017

Lukewarm barrel organ-ish ephemera from Hackney, London and thereabouts.

A bull attacks the first public train service in Russia, causing the ceremonial organ-grinder to teeter dangerously.

Intriguing explanation of the v/b confusion in Spanish orthography

It’s all Microsoft’s fault, says a member of the Catalan hanging and flogging brigade.

Bikini vs vikini

Spelling controversies to overtake music/games/dating/porn as biggest online revenue generator?

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Someone in Logroño’s been doing a bit of self-promotion on Wikipedia: La Universidad Internacional de La Rioja tiene motivos para ser considerada la Univesidad en Internet. Damn, damn, damn.

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.

Real Academia Española contemplating eliminating accents

And they’re going descriptive, bit by bit.

The naming of El Picazo

Mr Muñoz Soliva postulates the participation of some peculiarly phurtive Phoenicians.

“Peres, give back the novel prize”

More Spanish bilabial confusion.

European single currency under threat in Chinchón, Madrid

Seven years on and Spanish barmen still haven’t learned to love those damn eros ueros: Perhaps the shame this induces will send Trichet cap in hand to Threadneedle Street to apply to the Old Lady for admission. Perhaps not. (Thanks to El Ciruco, who is holding out for more than a share in Google Ads)