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Originally Posted by kurtz
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Originally Posted by CCIP
On the language thing... you do realize that the US does not have an official language? :hmm:
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I don't know what, if anything, they did decide on but the bill to make German the national language failed by only one vote. Apparently at the time there were more German speaking citizens than English and England was still viewed as the enemy.