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In still other cases the drag of English is apparent, as in blaubääse, a literal translation of blueberry (the standard Dutch word is heidebes), in meplbom (= mapletree; Dutch, ahoornboom), and in njeuspampir (= newspaper; Dutch, nieuwsblad).
Appendix 2. Non-English Dialects in America. 8. Dutch Henry Louis 1921
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Miss Boke had been sitting under the mapletree for a long time -- so long, indeed, that she was acquiring a profound distaste for forestry and even for maple syrup.
Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William Booth Tarkington 1907
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