English is fast becoming a secondary language in the United States, especially in places along the southern border of states such as California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.  There is an increasing number of billboards, advertisments, radio stations, and television broadcasts in languages other than English.  In fact, medical warnings are now in Spanish, Chinese, and Vietnamese. 

All this, while disturbing at times has yet to reach the threshold of panic… until now.

The Los Angeles Times cover story on April 21, 2010 (pictured below) is evidence that we have a problem.  It seems the editorial staff have lost their dictionaries.  Spell-check has gone out the window and the editors are out to lunch. 

I find it particularly ironic that not only did they spell the LA Mayor’s name correctly, but the very word they misspelled was “crediblity”.