Helen Mirren Should Fucking Hang!

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Incorrect, many of them were of German descent. As I said, there was even debate about which language we would use to create those first documents. There is a ton of German in our culture. (There's a ton in yours too, considering the language is Germanic to begin with).

There was really no serious debate about English or German in the US. That is a myth that we were taught in school and that has stuck around. There was a petition by German speakers from Virginia to have US laws printed in English and German in 1794. Read about it at http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/955/did-hebrew-almost-become-the-official-u-s-language where someone asked an even crazier question about Hebrew almost becoming the official language. The explaination of the German issue is from a professor.