Language input constantly changing

I don't know exactly what happened (might have been an accidental button combination) but a few moments ago my Mac has decided to randomly change to any of the three input languages I curently have (the little flag in the menu bar). Any reason why? And perhaps, any solution to this weird situation?
Thanks.

Interesting; spotlight is F2 for me.
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Well, I do have it set that way, and I can look up there to see where I am, but in the work I do time is critical and I move back and forth between the two languages frequently. It is really a pain and a waste of time to have to look and make a change that should be unnecessary. The problem is not so much that I don't know where I am. It's that I don't want to ever have to think I MIGHT be in anything but English input unless I specifically want to be. In other words, I need to be able to forget about this problem even being a possibility.
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