Our government should speak a common language with the American people - plain English.

I speak, Hindi, English, and American. I'm trilingual.

Indeed, in many respects she was quite English and was an excellent example of the fact that we have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, the language

There is reinforcement in such familiar back-formations as Chinee from Chinese, Portugee from Portuguese.

One of the more urp-making habits of media mavens is presuming to speak for the American people, as in 'The American people won't stand for this!'

The American people might have a criminal syndicate running their government.