Sentence:  Suddenly the Spanish became an <WSD>English</WSD> in which only one word emerged with clarity and precision , `` son of a bitch '' , sometimes hyphenated by vicious jabs of a beer bottle into Johnson 's quivering ribs . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries