Sixteen years before he became the nation's second president, John Adams proclaimed, "English is destined to be in the next and succeeding centuries more generally the language of the world than Latin was in the last or French is in the present age."
"Let us hope that American English does not turn into a bland, homogenized, pasteurized, assembly line product. May our bodacious language remain tasty and nourishing--full of flavor, variety, and local ingredients."
