Word: pennsylvania
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best translation would be 'he doesn't mind taking a girl home from a picnic.' Literally translated it says 'he doesn't care out.' When a Pennsylvania Dutchman says he 'doesn't mind' he is expressing a rather high volume of enthusiasm. So, to translate the phrase into 'likes' for Yankee readers, TIME isn't going...
...TIME was not quite accurate in saying Pennsylvania Dutch is a mixture of German, Dutch & English. It is a potpourri of plattdeutsch, high German, English and contains many colloquialisms, the origins of which are difficult to trace. Pennsylvania Dutch dialects and word usages differ considerably even in the five principal Pennsylvania Dutch counties: York, Bucks, Lehigh, Berks and Carbon...
After reading your article on Allentown, Pa. Call's Columnist Pumpernickle Bill, I realized that excepting the novels of Helen Martin and Elsie Singmaster, little or no attention has been paid to the peculiar Pennsylvania "Dutch" (or German...
...before the end, Pennsylvania's Senator Joseph Guffey called at the White House. That evening he made a radio speech denouncing the three Senators who did most to defeat the President's plan to enlarge the Supreme Court. "Political ingratitude carries with it its own punishment both swift and effective," said Senator Guffey. As political ingrates sure to be defeated when they come up for reelection he named three Democrats, Wyoming's Joseph C. O'Mahoney, Nebraska's Edward R. Burke and Montana's Burton K. Wheeler. From Senator Guffey, a spokesman...
...feel highly honored, Mr. President, that the Senator from Pennsylvania has singled me out as one of three members of the Senate for the purpose of broadcasting a speech which everyone knows he did not write and which everyone knows he would not have dared to deliver on the floor of the Senate...