Why should English be the Official Language of The United States

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An official language is a language that is legally accepted in a particular country and holds the status of being used in conducting all the government affairs . Such status can be given to every language even if it is not widely spoken . At present United States does not have their own official language . But most of its citizens speak English since it is their native language . The type of English spoken also varies from one group to another . Some speak American English

while others speak Canadian English but all these dialects have mixed up to produce a single English language which is mostly known as the North American English . Almost 96 of all the American citizens speak English very fluently and there have been several attempts to make English an official language . This was to be done by amending the immigration reform bill , but this move has never been successful and has received a lot of opposition especially from English non-speaking groups . Apart from English , Spanish is the second most spoken language in the U .S and in some States like the New Mexico laws have been written in English as well as Spanish (Burnaby and Ricento :85 . There are also established and emerging Spanish speaking citizens in the South Western part of the U .S most of them being recent Spanish immigrants . Currently , the United States houses the fifth largest Spanish speaking communities

Lack of official language in the United States has been...