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Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Verbalising; Gypsy crooks; Spanish fun quotient; & The Daily Mail.

VERBALISING: Some reckless fool is going to try to put words to the instrumental Spanish national anthem. The last idiot to try this about ten years ago was suffocated by a tsunami of anger and laughter in equal measure from this fractious country's several constituencies.

GYPSIES: The Royal Academy has finally come to its senses and stopped including 'swindlers' as a synonym for these. I can't recall whether or not they've also desisted from including the pejorative meanings of Gallego/Galician that are current in South America.

FUN: Before the last elections, the governing PP party said it would shift Tuesday holidays to Monday, so there'd be fewer 'bridge ' opportunities, when most people take 4 days off. But they didn't. So it'll be business as usual next year. With Spanish employees having more leisure than in most - all? - other EU countries.

FINALLY . . SEXISM: Private Eye asks whether this isn't the most Daily Mail headline ever: 'Rachel Weiss showcases her English-rose beauty in pretty feminine shoot as she discusses sexism in Hollywood'. Probably.

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