The director of the state language board has been fired for "financial mismanagement".
Her late father was a key member of the Cornish Language Board; her mother is an MK champion.
(Still, tellingly, the website of the South African government's language board is available only in English).Finding students, too, is a challenge.
When Ušakovs gave a speech to a mainly ethnic Russian crowd on 9 May, to celebrate the 70th anniversary of victory in the second world war, the Latvian state language board said it would investigate him for speaking without Latvian translation.
Having agreed years earlier to narrow contract language, many boards locked themselves into giving these large severance packages to their chief executives.
Also, many signs are posted in English and another language, bulletin boards promote coming international celebrations, information is posted for parents about multicultural programs in the region, and classrooms bloom with decorations from cultures ranging from Mexican to Native American and French Canadian.
Valerie Ewenin, who lost her native language at boarding school, appears with her eyes and mouth covered by a broken window.
Using carefully worded language, the board said there were reasons to doubt PricewaterhouseCoopers did adequate audits in 2008 and 2009.
Sol Steinmetz, a lexicographer, author and tenured member of Olbom (n., abbrev., < On Language's Board of Octogenarian Mentors), whose opinions on matters semantical, grammatical and etymological were widely sought by the news media, died on Oct. 13 in Manhattan.
On the other hand, multi-national manning has its own specific difficulties such as common language on board.
