Espanyol: How One Catalan Word Took Over the World (and Its Wallet)
From the Pyrenees to the Pacific: How the Word “Espanyol” Became a Global Rorschach Test BARCELONA—Last week, in a fluorescent-lit classroom in Seoul, a teenager practiced rolling the Spanish “r” in the word “espanyol,” blissfully unaware that 10,000 kilometers away a Catalan separatist was spitting it out like cheap vermouth. Meanwhile, on a Reddit thread…