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sponsmith | 21:07 Sun 13th Aug 2006 | History
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Is it true that the newly formed United States Government seriously considered using Hebrew as their official language after winning independance from the UK?
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Avatar Image gary baldy
No
23:09 Sun 13th Aug 2006
Avatar Image dot.hawkes
yes
23:17 Sun 13th Aug 2006
Avatar Image Lonnie
Maybe.
23:27 Sun 13th Aug 2006
Avatar Image WaldoMcFroog
Might you be thinking of this:

http://www.watzmann.net/scg/german-by-one-vote .html

Anyway, no is the answer.
23:32 Sun 13th Aug 2006
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A load of cr@p then ?? LOL
00:11 Mon 14th Aug 2006
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It was English, Jim, but not as we know it. ;-)
11:55 Mon 14th Aug 2006
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The United States currently has no official language, it is largely monolingual with English being the de facto national language. English is spoken by about 82% of the population as a native language, Hebrew is spoken by less than 0.1%.
13:38 Mon 14th Aug 2006
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Well that clears that up then!
18:32 Mon 14th Aug 2006
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Can you imagine if that had been true? Things would have been so different.

"Oye, the people"


(that was much funnier in my head)
16:47 Thu 17th Aug 2006

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