SF Supervisor: All Library Books in (Shakespearean) English

-- Library Journal, 7/21/2006

Taking aim at the English-only movement in this country, including ballot measures to establish English as an official language and the attempt by the Gwinnett County Public Library, GA, to stop purchasing Spanish-language materials, San Francisco Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval has offered a solution. His resolution states that the Board of Supervisors should make Shakespearean English the city's official language. Moreover, the local newspapers, should "submit all queries, both written and verbal, in the Bard's tongue." And the San Francisco Public Library should "cease immediately the acquisition of all books that are not written in proper Shakespearean English and to dispose immediately of any existing books in the library's collection that do not meet this criteria." To which we quote Hamlet: "Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't."