Galen is an indispensable early source for historians of the walnut, the hazelnut, the testicle, and so forth, but this does not explain why galen is used in Swedish to describe a disturbed person.

Or rather, how my grandfather seems to have been named after a minor railway station.

Is Mr Barbecue Bunny’s sardonic grin pre- or post-mortem?

The Danish-based trends site Ghits.dk is now using my most popular neologism (Google hit -> ghit) for both Google and Yahoo searches. (Dear Mr Larsen, any chance of a link back to the source of your inspiration? Kalebeul or FollowTheBaldie.com would do nicely!)

A Sicilian says it ain’t.

The strange shrieks of theatrical monsters often don’t require translation.

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

An etymological hop from kite-flying with Juan Marsé back to Concha Piquer’s greatest hit.

After years of shilly-shallying, will France finally stand up to American fartpower?

The cases of Spain and Holland.

Kalebeul’s investigation into Vosk and the Na’kuhl temporal conduit yields some surprising results.

Being Kalebeul’s contribution to rebranding the Spanish nation.

As the evenings draw in, the Arenys de Mar sensimilla syndicate has taken time off from the plantation to post another shambling Gran Armada-wreck of nationalist historical revisionism. (It’s dated 2006, but this is the first time it’s turned up in my reader, so…) As is customary, our scenario is back-to-the-future: a massive 15th century [...]

It’s not exactly a secret that Catalonia is currently run by spiteful, greedy, semi-literate buffoons, but our leaders’ protest re the Economist’s description of ex-regional president Jordi Pujol as a cacique should help to convince anyone still in doubt. The Oxford English Dictionary defines cacique thus:
2. In Spain or Latin America, a man who owes [...]

Le blog du Chì, one year ago, on TF1’s enthusiasm for the apoplectic dwarf who substituted him as opium of the peephole. Another favourite mystification, from El Ciruco:

Emphatically not a rodent; possibly Herb Alpert’s true muse.

It is suggested that an old Spanish slang word has nothing at all to do with Dutch pirates but instead adds weight to David Kleinecke’s generally discarded South American etymology of the word “pidgin”.