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Vygos Cagados, a jingoistic Dutch print celebrating the Battle of Vigo Bay (1702)

Wednesday, November 16th, 2011

But why, and for whom, would a Dutchman pun on Vigo / figo (fig) when both spelling and pronunciation of the latter were long obsolete in standard Spanish?

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