what causes your body to jerk so hard it wakes you from your sleep. this happens several times during the night. I sometime have jerking when I am awake during the day. The sudden, involuntary jerking of a muscle or group of muscles is known as myoclonus. It may occur alone or in sequence, infrequently or many times each minute.
In 2000, English was the language spoken at home by 86% of Washington residents five years old and older, down from 91% in 1990.he category Other Slavic languages includes Czech, Slovak, and Ukrainian. The category African languages includes Amharic, Ibo, Twi, Yoruba, Bantu, Swahili, and Somali.
Washington J. McCormick, a Republican Congressman from Montana, in 1923 proposed to displace English in favor of American as the national language. Apparently, this was the first official-language measure ever considered by the U.S. Congress. The bill died in committee, although it was adopted later that year by the state of Illinois. McCormick's rationale for the change was quoted in The Nation on April 11, 1923: