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Originally Posted by mrfrisky
btw, dutch should be the netherlands right, did the pensylvanians get it wrong ;)?
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Read my post..I explained.
The word for German is Deutsche . That somehow got paired down to Dutch. So, it is actually PA German but it was shortened down to that so long ago that PA Dutch stuck. Though, there certainly are people that say PA German these days and even some that clear out say Pennsylvania Deutsche.
Want to confuse things more? The old PA Dutch people and even the people that are super PA Dutch (like the Amish) call non-PA Dutch people that live in the area 'The English'.