Author: Cassandra EWN

What’s in a name?

SPANISH or Castellano?  Time was when Spain’s language was called Spanish although Catalans, Valencianos, Basques and Gallegos, not forgetting Asturians with their appropriately-named Bable, spoke their local languages at home. Once they could do so officially, that’s when Spanish began to transmute into Castellano and the term is finding favour in Latin America, too. At […]