This paper presents English-Croatian language contacts from the point of view of English as the donor language. First, linguistic borrowing (for intra-linguistic and extra-linguistic reasons) and types of linguistic borrowing (direct, indirect and circular) are explained. After that, loanwords are divided according to the degree of incorporation into the Croatian language system, by the source language, and a special group of loanwords. English-Croatian linguistic contacts are processed through summaries of the history of both languages and a presentation of the history of their linguistic contacts. The Croatian and English languages are compared on the orthographic, phonological and morphological levels. The next chapter deals with linguistic purity as opposed to the constant anglicization of the Croatian language. Linguistic purity has long been characteristic of the Croatian language, but contemporary linguistic practice shows otherwise. The breakdown of Anglicisms in the children's magazine Smib (from 2021, 2022 and 2023) paid special attention to the way of recording foreign, in this case English, words and Anglicisms (originally or phonetized) and offered Croatian expressions as a substitute for them. More than half (57%) of foreign words in Smib are written originally, and magazine authors most often use foreign words instead of Croatian.