Quote #16

New Song rapidly accumulated a nucleus of talent, and its best-known group was Els Setze Jutges, The Sixteen Judges, whose odd-sounding name came from a phrase used as a password by Catalan patriot troops during the rising against and occupation army in 1640 during the Reapers' War: 'Setze jutges d'un jutjat menjen fetge d'un penjat' ('Sixteen judges on a tribunal eat the liver of a hanged man'). No lisping Castilian, it was believed, could pronounce this barrage of fricatives.

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