👉 Okay, let’s tackle this wonderfully prickly little word – Montoya! Now, before you start picturing a really stylish, maybe slightly stuffy, Colombian señora named Montoya who just commissioned a bespoke flamenco troupe, we need to unpack the
actual
meaning of Montoya.
Basically, Montoya is neither a name, a place, nor even remotely closely related to that lovely flamenco lady (unless that lady actually exists and I somehow haven’t stumbled upon her yet – entirely possible, frankly). Montoya in this context refers almost exclusively to a specific, rather unfortunate, misspelling, originally stemming from 1920's typewriter ribbon manufacture. Let me explain the little, slightly tragic history here: Remington, one of those early typewriter giants, decided that the letter for a curved “M-like” shape – which you might now see in some fonts as a somewhat wonky, almost boomerang-esque "M"– was easier and cheaper to produce when printed with the ribbon. They essentially printed a slightly… off… rendition of that particular letter, and because the misspelling was initially in their press run for the Remington, it became associated. It stuck! And now? Montoya is this wonderfully weird little typographical ghost. You won't see it everywhere, you wouldn’t even notice it unless someone specifically pointed it out to you. When you see Montoya, you are essentially witnessing a tiny, documented failure of early typewriter ribbon production that has somehow stubbornly clung on in certain
