Speeka da English?

Remember the good old days when everyone spoke English?  If you do, you might be having some memory problems. 

In the 1910 census people were asked what language they spoke.  There were 92,228,496 Americans then.  Here’s the breakdown:

German 2,759,032

Italian 1,365,110

Yiddish 1,051,767

Polish    943,781

Swedish    683,219

French    528,842

Norwegian  402,587

Spanish     258,131

Hungarian   229,094

Czech     228,738

Danish    186,345

Slovak    166,474

Lithuanian  140,963

Dutch    126,045

Slovenian   123.631

Greek    118,379

Hundreds of thousands of others, including Chinese and Japanese, were not recorded in this census.