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Aurreskua performed San Vicente (Barakaldo) by a group (Laguntasuna) of people not considered as “indigenous” (2016). Photo: E. X. Dueñas.

Towards the end of April, people began to talk about the upcoming days of rest, thanks to the puente [literally bridge and used for a very long weekend when there is a working day between the weekend and bank holiday] around the corner: Sunday 30 April and the bank holiday on 1 May. Using that term for any long weekend is not new in the media or in everyday speech, even when there is no working day in between; laziness in language is behind these and other howlers: in proverbs, with “St. Michael’s Summer” (Indian Summer), instead of “St. Martin’s”; in sport competitions, leader five points from the second, instead of the other way around…

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