Tooth teeth, booth beeth; English is the craziest language

Posted by John Small | Mar 24, 2021 | Small Talk

Back in 1996, some of you may recall, there was a national movement afoot aimed at making English the “official” language of America. The intent - as I understood it at the time, based on various presentations by promoters of the movement - was to make it more difficult for non-English-speaking illegal aliens to steal […]

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John Small

John A. Small is the Managing Editor and (with Publishers Tom and Mary Lokey) co-founder of the Johnston County Sentinel, a weekly newspaper headquartered in Tishomingo, Oklahoma. He came to Tishomingo (his mother’s birthplace) in 1991 and spent the next three and a half years as reporter and columnist for the Johnston County Capital-Democrat. Following a two-year stint as News Editor at the Durant Daily Democrat, he returned to the C-D as News Editor in 1997 and remained there until January of 2018, when the Sentinel was founded. To date his work as a journalist has earned him more than 220 awards from the Oklahoma Press Association, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Press, the National Newspaper Association, and the Oklahoma Education Association.

Tooth teeth, booth beeth; English is the craziest language

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