Coming in from all over the place, apparently our legislators have decided to make English the official language of West Virginia.

As my friend Del (a WV native) said:

I hope this means the natives will finally learn to speak it.

Score one for the forces of jingoism!

ADDENDUM the First According to the Charleston Gazette, this language amendment won’t cause problems in the state. Well, no. We don’t have a lot of non-English speakers here. But that really isn’t the point of the bill, is it? The point of the bill isn’t to save money by not having to write alternative language versions of state publications.