Peter Harvey, linguist

Chack it out.

Trevor notes that the Tourist Department of the Xunta de Galicia has resurrected an English word that hasn’t been used for a few centuries. And doesn't know what it means. Nor does it have in general anything more than what might be called an innovative approach to the language of Shakespeare.

Two spacious rooms, lightly high

Or, to put it another way, slightly raised. The Alhambra is one of the most visited tourist sites in Spain.

Marine terminology

Whatever the media may say Francesco Schettino is the master, not the captain, of the Costa Concordia as I have explained in this post.

(Hu)mankind

Inclusive language is a problem. This is a link to a useful explanation of the question of mankind and humankind. As I say in A Guide to English Language Usage:

Mankind means people in general. In Old English man meant a person of either sex as well as a male person; it is still sometimes used in this sense, but less frequently now. Despite this, some people prefer the word humankind as being non-discriminatory while others object to it as a hybrid compound. Here kind is a noun meaning race or family; it is connected to kin and has nothing do with kind as an adjective.