Rosa recalls that when she was growing up in Karnes City, Texas, in the 1960s, she and other Mexican-American children were segregated into a separate classroom and forbidden to speak Spanish at school. Her teachers also replaced her first name...
Ron in Escondido asks why street sometimes sounds like shtreet. English speakers around the world have noticed str shifting toward shtr for decades, in words such as street and straight. The likely mechanism is assimilation, in which neighboring...