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Pennsylvania Dutch   /pˌɛnsəlvˈeɪnjə dətʃ/   Listen
Pennsylvania Dutch

noun
1.
A dialect of High German spoken in parts of Pennsylvania and Maryland.





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"Pennsylvania Dutch" Quotes from Famous Books



... whose ancestors had been in the United States as far as the fourth ascending generation. He found little or no evidence that hereditary traits had been altered. Even the descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers, the Virginia cavaliers, the Pennsylvania Dutch and the Huguenots, while possibly not as much unlike as their ancestors were, are in ...
— Applied Eugenics • Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill Johnson


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