Wann du des lese kannscht, dann wescht Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch. If you can’t understand that previous sentence, then maybe you don’t speak or understand Pennsylvania Dutch. But perhaps you’ve heard ...

READING – It’s hip to be Deitsch. That’s good news for Pop-Pop, bad news if you bet the farm that Pennsylvania German would disappear from the face of the Earth during your lifetime. But it’s still ...

SUMMIT STATION – The Pennsylvania Dutch dialect is being kept alive at St. Mark’s Brown’s Church, Wayne Township. The nondenominational, Bible-based church held its fourth annual service Sunday ...

Did you hear the one about the politician and what that guy said to him? Oh, wait, to really get this, you have to know the Pennsylvania Dutch dialect. That’s what it will take to be able to ...

At one time in the Lehigh Valley, many people spoke the Pennsylvania Dutch dialect. There were sections of the paper devoted to the dialect, and speakers gathered at Versommlings and Grundsau Lodsch ...

Pennsylvania Dutch is David Adam’s first language. Today, Adam and his wife Jean, both 76 of Orefield, instruct classes on the dialect and put on skits for attendees at the Kutztown Folk Festival.

As the Kutztown Folk Festival came to a close Sunday, vendors wrapped up hex signs, finished the last of the apple butter, packed up barrels of birch beer and put fiddles back into their cases. For ...

Dr. C. Richard Beam, Millersville guru of Pennsylvania German, said at the time that the only way to begin to figure the number of Dutch in Lancaster County would be to count the residents who ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Measuring dialect distances can be based on the comparison of words, and the comparison words should be based on the comparison of sounds. In ...

The question whether Flemish is a language or a dialect is as interesting, and as futile, as asking if Mancunian, Texan or Appalachian are languages or dialects of English. In the Netherlands as well ...