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In Middle English, it was. The variant Spanish was a later change.

Spain is the Anglicized version of España. Most countries have traditional names for other countries and regions that are different from the country's own language. Sometimes (as with the US and UK) abbreviations are used because the name uses words that are expressed in each language differently.

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Spanish is named after the region of Spain where it originated, not after the country itself. The word "Spanish" comes from "espaΓ±ol," which means "from Spain" in Spanish.

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