The less important English becomes in America, the less American it becomes as well. On Tuesday, Democrat Ismail Mohamed was elected as an Ohio state representative. The Somali immigrant prioritized ...

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Now that President Trump has signed an executive order to close the Department of Education, it may be hard to muster concern about his effort to make English the official language of the United ...

When my maternal grandfather, Israel Whitman, came to the U.S. from czarist Russia, he wouldn’t allow Yiddish to be spoken in his home. He knew that English was the key to success and believed he had ...

I was 3 years old the first time I mixed up Spanish and English. It would not be the last. It was 1975, and my family had recently migrated from Peru to Northern California. Shortly after our arrival, ...

The story of American English is how the nation’s different groups have made the language their own — but it’s also about the way it connects Americans. The latest book by the Mexican American author ...

President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office at the White House on Feb. 25, 2025. In no time at all, speaking a language other than English in public is going to feel like an act ...

Geneva Smitherman ended up in speech therapy in her freshman year at Wayne State University in the 1950s, when she failed a test to screen incoming teaching students for possible speech problems. The ...

The globalization of content consumption is well known. We have seen this particularly in the US where the share of audience demand for non-English content has ballooned over the past several years.

IN 1789, Noah Webster declared ‘the pure English pronunciation in Great Britain and New England’ to be ‘exactly the same in both.’ Ever since that time those who undertake the difficult task of ...

It’s easy to think that where language is concerned, in the United States we have a sort of vanilla, mainstream English and then some minor variations upon it — Southern, Upper Midwest, Southern ...