Pennsylvania Dutch
Speech parts
1. Pennsylvania Dutch - Noun
2. Pennsylvania Dutch - Adjective
Meaning
a dialect of High German spoken in parts of Pennsylvania and Maryland
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Examples
Church members had grown it widely in Europe.sfn By 1730, the Pennsylvania Dutch cultivated saffron throughout eastern Pennsylvania.
Another scholar, R. Whitney Tucker, wrote in 1934 in the journal Language that the “Pennsylvania Dutch are quite unable to grasp the tense-system of the English verb.”
Hex signs on Pennsylvania Dutch barns are also an example of traditional expression.
Among Gable's ancestors were Pennsylvania Dutch (German), Rhinelanders, and Bavarians.
The episode in question is "Dwight Christmas," and The Hollywood Reporter writes that it contained a brief scene where Dwight (Rainn Wilson) tries to get the staff of Dunder Mifflin to "celebrate a traditional Pennsylvania Dutch Christmas."
I am biased because I come from a country that was once made great by refugees - from the Pennsylvania Dutch and Swiss German-speaking Amish and Mennonite communities who fled religious persecution in Switzerlandwell-known ETH student and professor.