The Ladies Professional Golf Association (as opposed to the Gentlemen’s Professional Golf Association) has required that all its golf players be fluent in English beginning in 2009. Those players who cannot pass an oral evaluation will become suspended from...

A gadget aimed at facilitating communication between English-speaking restaurant owners and the Spanish-speaking workers they pay under the table is now on the market. And, boy, does it ever sound like a wondrous marvel from the future!: GigaChef.com announces...

Puerto Rico’s New Progressive Party is declaring the island’s Spanish-only voting ballots discriminatory, probably because they see this as a good way of ensuring Puerto Rico becomes the language-obsessed U.S.’s 51st state: A Spanish-only ballot discriminates against 14 percent...

Rapper Prodigy continues to live up to his name by using language conversion software to release an album in Spanish. While in prison: Rapper Prodigy, currently serving a three-year prison sentence for gun possession, has decided to release a...

Associate Editor Alex Alvarez takes a look at how nicknames among minorities work to keep a good gordita down and why you, shorty, shouldn’t take it anymore. Words, in and of themselves, are without power. Their potency comes from...

We had originally intended to write a story that SF Weekly covered about a construction management company that’s been accused of fostering racism among Black and Latino carpenters, until we came across one, particular sentence tucked away within the...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has taken steps to eradicate English from businesses, asking his country’s phone company workers to use Spanish equivalents of Anglo-dominated business and technical phrases like “Crazy Language Nazi:” Through a campaign launched Monday, newly nationalized...

Jessica Alba seems incredibly committed to this new image she’s throwing around, stating now that she hopes to speak to her baby only in Spanish, despite the fact that she’s still just learning the language herself: “Hopefully I can...

Are you a New York-based Latino? Do you speak words? Well, chances are, you say them in a funny way which makes people laugh and feel also perhaps a little bit afraid of you. A linguistic study conducted by...

A new book “Spanish Word Histories and Mysteries: English Words that Come from Spanish,” warns teaches that Spanish has been infiltrating the English language for centuries. It’s like an armada English word for “armada” in your mouth, really. Shit,...

A new Wikipedia-style site, called Wikilengua, hopes to teach Spanish speakers how to use their language properly and effectively. Preferably without the risk of being ridiculed on a sign outside a tacky an elegant dining establishment: Spoken in more...

Casa D’Ice restaurant, located in beautiful North Versailles, PA, is, as you could probably garner from its name, one of the finer eating establishments one could hope to visit. Not content to merely serve its patrons the finest Italian...

The Baltimore Sun features a piece today advising us U.S. Americans to resist the “linguistic terrorism” of English-only laws. Mmm linguistic terrorism: Linguistic terrorism has plagued children of immigrants and Native Americans for generations. Alberto Alvaro Ríos wrote in...

Twenty-three bilingual police officers in Houston, Texas are suing for unpaid overtime and other compensation due to the amount of work they have to do because, they say, the department has not hired enough Spanish-speaking officers: The officers are...

An article in Newsweek touched upon an issue we’ve been thinking a lot about since having to read through word after word of Senator and presidential candidate Tom Tancredo’s anti-Latinos, anti-immigrant, anti-Spanish rhetoric. What place does Spanish have in...

Notably (or not, really) missing from Univision’s Spanish-language Republican debate this past weekend was Senator Tom Tancredo. Tancredo has criticized his fellow candidates for “pandering” to Spanish-speakers who, he says, can’t even vote anyway:...

Republican Senator Tom Tancredo is refusing to participate in this weekend’s Spanish-language Republican debate, to be held in Miami, because he believes it encourages illegal immigration: “What all my colleagues — what the other candidates are doing — it’s...

A new study shows that second generation Latinos in the U.S. tend to speak more and better English than their first generation parents. Like, duh! Beesh, we know we speak English so good: The classic pattern, reported by the...

A group of Spanish-speaking workers have filed a discrimination suit against their workplace, G&C industries, after their employer implemented an “English only” policy at work. Andres Moran, one of the workers, gives us a lesson in geography: According to...

A suit filed against The Salvation Army has sparked a Senate debate over language in the workplace. The discussion prompted Senate Republicans to seek legislation that prevents the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) from enforcing rules against English-only workplaces:...

Bilingual speakers are, apparently, at a loss for when to speak English or Spanish. Life is so complicated: Cuban-born Maria Carreira, the coauthor of two college Spanish textbooks, can glide easily between her native tongue and English. But in...

It’s a well-known fact that Guanabee commenters are among the most opinionated, the smartest, the sexiest and the most supple on the internet. Well, except Marco. So we always feign interest in what you, our readers, have to say....

Many of us at Guanabee grew up speaking Spanglish. In fact the name Guanabee itself is a form of the dialect. So we were intrigued when this essay by Eduardo González entitled Spanglish: To Ser or Not to Be?...