Thursday, March 15th, 2012
Pennsylvania Dutch [Video]
(& If you’re at work and can’t watch the video, basically… I’m born & raised Pennsylvania Dutch, so the way I speak and form sentences is “dutch-ified”. The best way to sum this up is to show a comment I received from Judy:
I wonder how many of your readers are from Central Pennsylvania? When I lived there, it took me some time to figure out that “Leave” and “Let” are used interchangeably (“I let it all natural”) and that “awhile” means “now” or “then.” (“I wrote them down on index cards awhile.”) Thanks for the reminder of the quirky regionalisms of Central PA! I remember hearing one woman say to another “Do you want to have lunch awhile?” and I thought “Whaaaatt?”
I’m guilty of switching those words around like leave & let (which I did in my last post), and awhile. I also say a lot of words in weird ways like milk, room, ruin, channel… etc. So, if I ever say/write something that is confusing, just leave something in the comments section, so I can explain it. )
Have a great weekend!
Posted on May 21, 2013 - 22 comments
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March 16, 2012 at 8:08 am
That’s hilarious! I honestly had never noticed, but that could be b/c my brain was automatically changing the sentence to what I thought you meant :)
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March 16th, 2012 at 8:08 am
haha :p
March 16, 2012 at 9:09 am
I never noticed either! Cute video though. It’s always fun to hear what people sound like.
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March 16, 2012 at 9:09 am
I hadn’t really noticed either. I probably just adjusted them or thought they were typos or something. It’s so interesting to hear your accent because you never really know people have those reading their blogs. Thanks for sharing this little tidbit about yourself. Cute video.
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March 16th, 2012 at 9:09 am
It’s so weird hearing that I have an accent, even though I know that everyone has one. lol. & thanks, the only part I like of the video is when I say about Coco meowing. haha
March 16, 2012 at 9:09 am
I could hear the southern a little bit. That is definitely something that I’ve always been a confused by. My cousin married a guy from the Pittsburgh area and he has a southern accent too. I never noticed the word change. Not sure if it’s because I know what you mean or because my brain auto changes it to what it’s supposed to be.
It’s always a little strange for me to see people I’ve been reading about in live action. To hear how they speak and their mannerisms as opposed to how I read your personality. Thanks for sharing, I feel like I maybe know you a little better now.
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March 16th, 2012 at 9:09 am
Do I come across differently in the video then the way I write? I’m so curious about all of this now.
March 16th, 2012 at 10:10 am
I wouldn’t say differently, but in my head everyone talks like me. It’s an assumption I make (subconsciously) until I know differently.
I always knew I talked a little weird but when I moved to West Chester i realized just how much. Kevin constantly (and I mean constantly) makes fun of me for how I say words. Funny thing is that he’s got a little Philly in the way he talks, he’s just not used to that being different.
PS – I apparently say restaurant weird. According to Kevin it’s rest-rant but I say it as rest-a-rant (silly souther Delaware accent).
March 16th, 2012 at 10:10 am
haha, I do the same thing. & then I hear someone talk and I’m like “whoa”. I’m never accurate in my assumptions on the way someone will sound. lol.
March 16, 2012 at 10:10 am
Haha I am born and raised PA dutch as well. No worries! In fact I never even realized that I do use some local vernacular until my in-laws (not from York!) started teasing me for saying ‘needs finished’ etc.
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March 16th, 2012 at 10:10 am
hahha – so great. sometimes my boss looks at me like, what did you just say? there is a big difference between where I grew up and Harrisburg.
March 16, 2012 at 10:10 am
Cute video! Coco is a stunner.
I speak with a pretty strong British accent but I mispronounce lots of words because I read a lot as a child and would make up the way things were said and then I say them out loud and people laugh at me…. haha. Oh well.
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March 16th, 2012 at 10:10 am
hahah, you definitely need to post a video! i love British accents – is that weird? lol
March 16, 2012 at 10:10 am
Oh also! I just thought of another one. Apparently I say ‘bad’ weird. Matt says we (my family) all do it. I dont hear it!
And for what its worth, to me – you sound exactly like I imagined! I guess thats one of the benefits of being a PA girl…I can always tell another one!
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March 16th, 2012 at 10:10 am
haha, that is awesome!
and everytime I say ruin, or ruined, my boyfriend looks at me and says, what did you just say? and then I say ruin or ruined again, and he says “what did you say” again and then I finally realize he’s being a smart ass. So then I have to really think about the word and slowly pronounce it the right way. It takes so much more effort to say words in the correct way, then the way us PA girls say then. lol.
+ 3948348 points for you being a PA dutch girl! :)
March 16, 2012 at 3:15 pm
A video = awesome! You’re so brave. It’s funny Travis thinks you have a Southern accent – I thought the same thing!
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March 16th, 2012 at 5:17 pm
I wish I was from the south! :p
March 17, 2012 at 10:22 pm
I am from central Pa, but do not use any Dutchisms. My kids were brought up in New Jersey and tell me I have an accent. Apparently water and orange are 2 of the words I say all wrong!
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March 19, 2012 at 8:20 pm
You should make a video of mom saying words, people think we are dutch-i-fied. Ha.
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March 20th, 2012 at 8:08 am
LOL! She might sue me for putting a video like that up.
April 1, 2012 at 6:18 pm
That’s so funny. I never noticed that you talk weird. but I guess I can just figure it out so I don’t notice… I’m not sure if I say anything weird. It might depend. Maybe there are some California things I say that don’t make sense to people in other parts of the country (or world for that matter).
Just keep being yourself, I think it’s fine :) Fun video too! cute cat :)
~Lisha
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April 1st, 2012 at 7:19 pm
Thank you Lisha :D