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Muhlenberg legend
The Muhlenberg legend is an urban legend in the United States and Germany. According to the legend, the single vote of Frederick Muhlenberg, the first ever Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, prevented German from becoming an official language of the United States.
==Basis of legend==
The kernel of truth behind this legend is a vote in the United States House of Representatives in 1794, after a group of German immigrants asked for the translation of some laws into German. This petition was rejected by a 42 to 41 vote and Muhlenberg (of German descent himself, who had abstained from that particular vote) was later quoted as having said "the faster the Germans become Americans, the better it will be." It cannot be verified whether Muhlenberg cast the deciding vote.〔Heath, Shirley Brice & Frederick Mandabach. ''Language Status Decisions and the Law in the United States'', in Cobarrubias, Juan & Joshua A. Fishman, eds., (Progress in Language Planning ), p. 94 (1983)〕〔Sick, Bastian (19 May 2004). (''German as the official language of the USA?'' ), ''Spiegel Online'' (in English)〕
The United States has no statutory official language; English has been used on a ''de facto'' basis, owing to its status as the country's predominant language. At times various states have passed their own official language laws.
The same legend also exists with Dutch and Greek instead of German.
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