Re: United States Indenpendence Day (4 July)

On 2024-07-05, Ross Clark wrote:

...as everybody knows.
And the linguistic angle is...well, we go back to Noah Webster:

There's another linguistic angle: the first newspaper to report on the
Declaration of Independence was the Pennsylvanischer Staatsbote, a
German-language newspaper (in Pennsylvania).


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