[78-L] O Maryland, My Christmas Tree

[Michael Biel]

From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>>> Wasn't it a close vote between English and German to be the
>>> official language of the US at one point?

>> Quite possibly?! Where I grew up, in central Illinois, there were
>> German-language churches...even German-language newspapers. 
>> Steven C. Barr

This proves NOTHING. There were Jewish newspapers in Yiddish.  There
STILL are Chinese newspapers in NYC in Chinese, Korean newspapers in
Korean, Russian newspapers in Russian, Spanish newspapers in Spanish,
etc. etc. etc. etc.  What in the world does this prove?????

From: Royal Pemberton <ampex354 at gmail.com>
> I have my paternal grandmother's baptismal certificate from 1893,
> the year she was born in Charleston, Iowa (a very small town in
> the southeastern part of the state about 10 miles from Keokuk).
> All in German, printed by the German Evangelical Synod in St Charles, Missouri.

This also means nothing. Jewish certificates of marriage, bris, etc are
in Hebrew.  Eastern Orthodox certificates are in Greek.  Russian
Orthodox certificates are in Russian.  That has nothing to do with the
possibility of German being made the National language.  

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com