IN A CHURCH hewn out of a mountainside, just over a thousand years or so ago, a monk was struggling with a passage in Latin. He did what others like him have done, writing the tricky bits in his own ...

The adoption of "ñ" as an abbreviation of "nn" is the solution adopted in Spanish and Galician. alfaneque/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY The letter ñ is the emblem of Spanish, the mother tongue of almost ...

The Philippines is the only former Spanish colony that does not have the Spanish language as its national language. One possible reason for this is a personal theory of mine – that while Latin America ...