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[Facts] An urban legend????
The story that Greek was almost voted as an official language in the US is so widespread here that I took it for granted. Tried to find some support though a web search, but -- bummer! -- I didnt find any :(
http://www.urbanlegends.com/books/the_story_of_english.html
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Found a book...I'd honestly never heard of this before, but I was intrigued enough to use my librarian's skills to track down a book which covers this:*O Strange New World; American Culture: The Formative Years*, by Howard Mumford Jones (published 1964)The book is apparently out of print now, but I'll see if I can snare it via interlibrary loan. Sounds like interesting reading!-- Nanaea
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