Used to be that the new euph on the block would show up every 2-3 years.

Now it's an annual event. The referent doesn't change, nor do the complications caused. But it's a new reason to beat up on somebody out of the loop.

I still go with "ELL".

Good grief. Language is always evolving to reflect new information, new technology, new complexity. Language is a fluid as people are, and it's a beautiful thing that it can stretch and grow. I mean, we're not still calling cars "horseless carriages" because we no longer frame transportation as occurring with or without horses. "ENL" simply reframes the blinkered "ESL" to acknowledge that new English learners may know more than one other language.

Maga is just a renamed "Tea Party"
which is a renamed "moral majority"
which is a renamed "ignorant yokels voting through their hatreds"

Don't get mad at liberals. Get mad at the English language with all these damn synonyms.

just not English speakers, which would make it a more accurate term...

than the average American. Immigrants from Central America may speak an indigenous language as well as Spanish. My forebearers spoke Polish and German before they came to the US, and learned English as their 3rd language.

I like the new term - it avoids the built-in assumption that non-Americans all speak only one language

To wit, to woo:
https://www.thoughtco.com/english-as-a-native-language-enl-1690598

By Richard Nordquist
Richard Nordquist
English and Rhetoric Professor

Ph.D., Rhetoric and English, University of Georgia
M.A., Modern English and American Literature, University of Leicester
B.A., English, State University of New York

Dr. Richard Nordquist is professor emeritus of rhetoric and English at Georgia Southern University and the author of several university-level grammar and composition textbooks.
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Updated on May 29, 2019

Definition: The variety of the English language spoken by people who acquired English as their first language or mother tongue.

English as a Native Language (ENL) is commonly distinguished from English as an Additional Language (EAL), English as a Second Language (ESL), and English as a Foreign Language (EFL).

Native Englishes include American English, Australian English, British English, Canadian English, Irish English, New Zealand English, Scottish English, and Welsh English. In recent years, the proportion of ENL speakers has steadily declined while the use of English in ESL and EFL regions has rapidly incre