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Category Archives: Spanish
Curculio 3: “Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice . . .”
. . . and there are definitely worse possibilities. When one language adopts words from another, it sometimes happens that standard spelling changes create a new pair of homonyms, making two words that were quite different in the source language … Continue reading
Posted in Curculio: Misc, Etymology, Spanish
Tagged Castilian, Catalan, Eschatology, Portuguese, Robert Frost, Robertson Davies, Scatology
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D. M. G. K. Chesterton and J. L. Borges
Two more author anniversaries today, and again authors best known for their short stories. It is the 75th anniversary of the death of G. K. Chesterton, and the 25th anniversary of the death of Jorge Luis Borges. Here’s a bit … Continue reading
