english, the official national language

[David Bowie]

From:    Dave Wilton <dave at WILTON.NET>

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> And I'm wondering if Scalia and other conftitutional originalifts wouldn't
> infift that the official dialect be that of 18th century Philadelphia. All
> documents muft ufe the medial s, or they are not official.

I'm thinking that they should simply accept urban legends
http://www.snopes.com/language/apocryph/german.htm and make German the
official language of the US.

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