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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The Politics of English in America

From someone who has called Boston home since the early 1990s, it feels like a civic obligation to wish you a Happy St.
The Radical Teacher, No. 123, A Tribute to Richard Ohmann (Summer 2022), pp. 12-17 (6 pages) We find ourselves … in a vicious eddy of American economic history. Our fortunes as an occupational group ...
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 ...
Welcome to the Vowels In America (VIA) research project, a joint effort by sociolinguists from the University of Nevada, Reno and the University of Oregon to better understand the relationship between ...
As an add-on to Matthew Miner's Letter to the Editor, I can only say he only stated part of the story. Native Americans could speak English long before the Europeans landed here. Fisherman followed ...