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Census: Foreign-Language Households on Rise in US
By David Knowles - AOL News(April 28) -- The number of U.S. households in which languages other than English are spoken is growing rapidly. A new study published by the Census Bureau finds that the number of Americans age 5 and older who regularly speak non-English languages at home grew by 140 percent from 1980 to 2007. During that same period, the country's population grew by just 34 percent. The languages with the biggest percentage gains were Vietnamese, which rose by 511 percent over the 27-year period, and Spanish, which rose by 211 percent. According to the Census Bureau's figures, approximately 280 million ...
English-Only Group Can't Spell the Word 'Conference'
By David Knowles - Politics DailyShould English be the official language of the United States? That assertion was made over the weekend at a conference hosted by talk-show personality and former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan. Oddly, as the featured speakers delivered their remarks ridiculing Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor for her supposed lack of English proficiency while at Princeton University, and warning that the Obama administration is "going to gradually institute institutional bilingualism in the country," they did so beneath a large banner that contained a doozy of a typo. Via a photo from ThinkProgress, ...
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