I pictured Antonis Samaras in ITV last night speaking in English. His voice went on but my mind followed its own discourse, like a voice-over above the action: "he speaks English", I thought, in wonder. The spread of Spain's debt has reached a historical mark today, but I really doubt that 10 % of Spanish population can tell you that spread is called "spread" in English. The case is quite different from that of Greece. My friend E. commented a few weeks ago: "even the 90 year-old Greek men chatter the spread this, the spread that". The retrospective antics of the Spaniard towards the Shakespeare's language is well portrait in this example, I reckon.
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