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[quoteost_uid0="Derek"][color=#000000ost_uid0]Interesting historical fact I still retain from my AP US history class: When the United States was still under the Articles of Confederation, there was a vote over what the national language should be. English won out, of course, but German was not far behind.[/colorost_uid0][/quoteost_uid0]
[color=#000000ost_uid0]As I recall, English was chosen by a [iost_uid0]very[/iost_uid0] narrow margin (one version says we were a single vote from speaking German.)


Michiel: I was responding more to the train of thought running through a number of your posts up to that point -- not to one in particular -- and that response shouldn't be taken too seriously. (That [iost_uid0]was[/iost_uid0] English, btw -- I'd be completely hopeless at Dutch.)[/colorost_uid0]