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From: zwicky@pterodactyl.cis.ohio-state.edu (Elizabeth D. Zwicky)
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Subject: Re: All numeric representation of dates
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Date: 30 Aug 88 13:47:38 GMT
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In article <774@philmds.UUCP> hulsebos@philmds.UUCP (Rob Hulsebos) writes:
>Congress also decided that English would the the language of the country, 
>instead of German. Those in favor of English won with the smallest possible
>margin of only _1_ vote. I wonder what the course of history would have been
>had German become the US language.

I've been sucked into irrelevancy :-) This is a popular fallacy.
Actually, the Congress has never (yet) voted about the language of the
USA. English just kind of took over. There were still large
German-speaking areas until WWII; we're talking large chunks of
*states* where public school was taught partially in German. My father
grew up in Pennsylvania-Dutch country, and can (barely) remember the
change-over.  There are still small areas that are German speaking
around here in religious communities. 

	Elizabeth Zwicky (zwicky@cis.ohio-state.edu)