“Official” is a very English word. It has its roots in the Old French “oficial” and the Latin “officialis,” and now — thanks to a new Trump executive order — describes the status of the English ...

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In my home state of Illinois, the official language was “American” from 1923 to 1969. To many, this may seem like an absolutely ridiculous official language, and the Illinois government would agree ...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order declaring English as the United States’ official language, the first designation of such kind in the country’s near 250-year history. “From the ...

I was 3 years old the first time I mixed up Spanish and English. It would not be the last. It was 1975, and my family had recently migrated from Peru to Northern California. Shortly after our arrival, ...

Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, is introducing a bill on Thursday that if passed would establish English as the official language of the United States. "The English language has been a cornerstone of American ...

K-12 educators in the United States are still federally required to support English learners’ acquisition of the English language, regardless of any official national language designation. That’s the ...

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is prepared to sign an executive order designating English as the official language of the United States for the first time in the nation's history, a White House ...