About half of U.S. adults (51%) say it is extremely or very important for the U.S. to make English its official language.

President Donald Trump issued an executive order over the weekend declaring English as the official language of the U.S.

Across its nearly 250-year history, the United States has never had an official language. On March 1, U.S. President Donald Trump changed that when he signed an executive order designating English as ...

The very characteristic American “gotten” for the past ... author and expert on the origins of the English language, about why the variety of English used in the US is different – and ...

Another 10.7% speak Spanish at home while 95.1% of people in the state speak only English or speak the language "very well," ...

I am thrilled that President Donald Trump has so courageously stood up for the English language here in the United States. For the first time in our history, an American president has declared by ...

Our growing embrace of English wasn’t the only thing S.I. Hayakawa and his crew were wrong about. All the kumbaya they insisted would happen if English was elevated in California unsurprisingly turned ...

but an American newspaper in the German language.” I have discovered tombstones of men who died in U.S. service in no fewer than 10 languages besides English, among them German. Although ...

“In an era of mass immigration, asserting that the English language as the American language, is a message of national UNITY.” But the plan also prompted backlash from pro-immigration groups a ...

Welcome to the American Sign Language (ASL) program, housed in the Department of ... ASL is the third most common language in the United States after English and Spanish. There are more than 300 ...