Accesibility and foreign language short quotes

Should they be assigned a lang attribute?

[Gusgsm]

Say,

Err... After deffending accesibility myself... I downloaded A-Prompt, an accesibility freeware tool nicely provided by Toronto University and...

In a set of Spanish pages where you can find side by side The English term for the sake of clearity and document the original term, I was repeatedly offered the 'need' to assign a lang attribute to those words that were kept in English (" ...la fotografía <i>(picture)</i> de...", for example).

And I ask, Is 'that' really needed or is it an overzealous accesibility test? Should I <span> all of them? Is there an equivalent of <blockquote> but just for one or two words? (so that I could apply a css lang="en-uk" to it).

Thanks in advance :)

[DrDoc]

Is there an equivalent of <blockquote> but just for one or two words?

That would be <q> ;)

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