If Spain was successful, England would become part of the massive Spanish Empire.
This episode of the History of English Podcast examines how the Spanish Armada and Elizabethan-era conflicts with Spain shaped the English language. The host traces how Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese loanwords flooded into English during the late 1500s, covering everything from military terms like armada and arsenal to everyday words like umbrella, parasol, and sombrero. The episode also explores how linguistic suffixes help scholars trace word origins across Romance languages.
