Our growing embrace of English wasn't the only thing S.I. Hayakawa and his crew were wrong about. All the kumbaya they insisted would happen if English was elevated in California unsurprisingly turned out to be a bunch of — excuse my Spanish — caca.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Donald Trump is about to sign an executive order making English the official language of the United States. Duh. English has always been the official language of the United States, at least in an unofficial sense.