Talk:Pennsylvania Dutch
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[edit]If it is no great offense, I have removed some of the references to the Amish in this definition. The vast majority of the Pennsylvania Dutch people were/are not Amish. In addition to this, not all Amish are Pennsylvania Dutch. --Jmcbaroggio (talk) 00:12, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
- Thank you for explaining your edit. Looks good to me. —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 00:14, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
Eh?
[edit]- From Pennsylvania + Dutch, in the now obsolete sense of "German". Also by folk etymology from the German word "Deutsch" meaning "German".
Nothing can come "by" a folk etymology. They're definitionally wrong, unless this is a mangled calque of German volk to mean "in common use". Speaking of which... Dutch is just a mangled form of Deutsch. The two halves of this etymology are simply saying the same thing. It doesn't matter that "Dutch" meaning "German" goes back to Middle English; the reason these people got that name was because they referred to themselves as a word that got transcribed "Dutch". The only mistake is that it was neither English "Dutch" or High German "Deutsch" but Low German "Deitsch". — LlywelynII 23:54, 23 April 2022 (UTC)