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- noun A person belonging to the
Amish culture of the United States and Canada, descended from German immigrants to Pennsylvania before 1800. - proper noun The
High German language, descending from Palatinate German, which is spoken by thePennsylvania Dutch . (Not to be confused with the Low German languagePlautdietsch .) - adjective Relating to the Pennsylvania Germans or their language.
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Examples
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Lisa specializes in saving rare antique strains from the Pennsylvania German farming communities.
Groundwork: Not your usual antique dealer Adrian Higgins 2010
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Some astounding examples of Pennsylvania German are to be found in the copious humorous literature of the dialect; e.g.,
Chapter 2. Non-English Dialects in America. 1. German Henry Louis 1921
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Such phrases as Es giebt gar kein use and Ich kann es nicht ständen are very common on Pennsylvania German lips.
Chapter 2. Non-English Dialects in America. 1. German Henry Louis 1921
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It is an offshoot of Pennsylvania German, and shows even greater philological decay.
Chapter 2. Non-English Dialects in America. 1. German Henry Louis 1921
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The only persons speaking it are a few remote country-folk and they have reduced it to its elements: even the use of polite pronouns, preserved in Pennsylvania German and so important in true German, has been abandoned.
Chapter 2. Non-English Dialects in America. 1. German Henry Louis 1921
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The indefinite article, en in Pennsylvania German, has been worn away to a simp&pgr; n.
Chapter 2. Non-English Dialects in America. 1. German Henry Louis 1921
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This corrupted vulgate is called Yankee-Dutch by the Hollanders of Michigan, and, like Pennsylvania German, it has begun to produce a literature, chiefly humorous in character.
Appendix 2. Non-English Dialects in America. 8. Dutch Henry Louis 1921
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Many of the recipes given Mary by Pennsylvania German housewives, noted for the excellence of their cooking, have never appeared in print.
Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans" Edith Matilda Thomas 1889
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Explicit directions for the making of these excellent raised cakes was given Mary by an old, experienced Pennsylvania German cook.
Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans" Edith Matilda Thomas 1889
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I'm proud enough now; in fact, being prideful is a little uncomfortable, or maybe that's just my good Pennsylvania German background showing through.
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