Accent Tag: Pennsylvania Dutch English!
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- Here is an Accent Tag featuring a Pennsylvania Dutch accent in English. The accent was once found throughout the the Pennsylvania Dutch region of south-east Pennsylvania. Very few people still speak with this thick of an accent today, but as little as 20 years ago, it was very common to find speakers with this type of accent.
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Part of the PA Dutch accent is literally screaming instead of talking. My grammy can confirm.
My mommy either :D
Haha True!
@@mikeknepp2507 it needs to lol
LOL yes. I thought my family was just loud! I'm realizing that is just the PA Dutch way!
I grew up in central PA but moved to Texas and my girlfriend says I can't control my voice lol
This sounds like a guy doing a joke accent, but I assure you, having grown up in ol' Pee-A, it's very real.
I moved from PA to Texas, and I'll occasionally slip into this accent when I want to be silly or emphasize something. It's very much a joke accent for me, since nobody down here has ever heard it before
The milk's all! Outten the lights, onct, doncha know, then. My boyfriend gets on my case when I spend too much time in Lancaster and get "Dutchy." (Millersville Miller here!)
Your comment gave me faith that this was real. It indeed sounds fabricated! Incredible.
"But toilet paper costs money".
Sounds Pa. Dutch to me!
Tom Findley ...Bingo, being close with your money is a "Dutchy" trait
My family is pa Dutch and they won’t spend money unless they have 30 coupons and the item is discounted. If it’s not we wait a week until the milk is cheaper. 😂😂
Sam.well.thats it Sounds like my old man.
That's a german thing in general haha
Hahaha to me as a german, it sounds swabian.
I only looked this up because there's a character in a book I'm reading with a supposed thick Dutch Pennsylvanian accent, and I wanted to imagine the story better. This whole thing cracked me up lol
My Mom was PA Dutch and this is exactly how they speak. Sounds like a family reunion. My Grandfather actually spoke the German Dutch dialect with his friends.
Doug is not exaggerating or faking the accent! This is for real! My two sisters married brothers, Kratzer's from Kratzerville, Pennsylvania, Selinsgrove in Snyder County. This is the exact accent they use. The whole family! I thought I overcame the dutchy words in my own conversations, but listening to Doug's videos, I realized nothing has changed! Some from the South thought I was from the south!! LOL! Thanks, Doug, for all the hard work in creating and taking the time to edit and uploading the videos! I know it is a lot of hard work and it is appreciated!
Lol at everyone saying this is faked trust me I've heard people with a thicker accent lol
This is exactly how my grandparents sound
My late grandfather known as Mac had a PA dutch accent. He was pretty well known in the community. He lived in Kutztown. Watching these videos has made the grief process easier for me. I'm glad I found this channel!
I am humbled and thankful to know that our videos have helped you in your journey. Blessing to you and your family.
Ira Eidle I'm from Lancaster City PA and the A sound's more like a I when we say Lancaster lol
Ayyy Kutztown
Kutztahn*
Kome ahn dahn tew kootz-tahn
he sounds...very enthusiastic
That's how we speak in PA Dutch country
"Dutchies" aren't known for our relaxed attitudes!😂
Outen the lights
Red up your room
Spritzen outside
To name a few
I heard these around Wooster Ohio
I think the question asker sounds like the average PA Dutch resident but the answerer sounds like an average Pennsylvania German speaker (a person who can speak PA Dutch) and/or a Mennonite or Amish person.
His accent is more accurate to the amish that I remember from my youth. In Lancaster there was another accent that was quite a bit different. Mine = my-un and then there were unusual forms of words like for "you" the plural was youz and you-uns. In general there was probably an influence from settlers from different areas of the germanic languages.
youse and you'uns are popular in Ireland and northwest England
I am second generation Pennsylvania Deutsch. My father's mother was born in Deutschland. I live in Lehigh County (PA) my entire life. This is indeed spot on. There is a Farmer's Market in Allentown, PA where you can hear this accent all the time.
Deutsch =/= Dutch.. Deutschland =/= the Netherlands.
I'm 13th or 14th generation PA Dutch. Once at that same farmer's market I was shopping for some fabric to make a long maxi coat. The vendor offered me three yards of blue "search" (serge).
@@pyruvicac.id_ the reason we referred to the PA Dutch as such despite no direct relation to the netherlands and not 'german' or 'deutsch', is actually the same reason the people of Netherlands are 'Dutch' and not something like 'Netherish'
They both came from Germany. That's it, they are both descended from Germanic ancestors. The German word for the German language and people is Deutsch but that is difficult to say in other languages especially English speakers. So they became referred to as the Dutch, and the German people who much later traveled to America became Pennsylvanian Dutch. All because the English had trouble pronouncing Deutsch.
So your comment is not completely accurate.
@@davidfitzsimmons2451 Actually.... Many came from Switzerland, not Germany.
Many of the PA Dutch words are closer to Swiss than German. My German friends have a harder time understanding me than my Swiss friend when I "speak Dutchy".
@@kelf114 can you guess why that is? Same reasons I mentioned before, swiss comes from Germanic tongue ages ago. It is very likely all the various offshoots of old German have similarities to each other due to a form of 'convergent' evolution of sorts while the original German took it's own way.
But as for people actually coming from Switzerland settling in the pa dutch regions I would love to see sources on that. It's rather well documented full on Germans settled the areas, in fact there is a VERY good number of Hessian mercenaries who after being stuck here with no way home after the revolution just settled in the pa dutch communities.
This sounds like home 😂. So many people from other parts of the country have no clue what he’s saying but I find his accent really normal around here.
Ha! That was awesome! He was so channeling my late grandparents (Allentown...or should I say "Allentahn...PA).
Carole Wolf That's where I'm from. You should hear my grandpa talk. Mayanais.
my grandpa grew up there. they had a bakery
You ain’t kiddin! I’m raised chust up the road in Echypt, and that PR~NYC accent has encroached up in to our lands as well.
@@dscott1699 Puerto Rican people have always been a huge part of Allentown. Never bothered me one bit. Learned a lot of Spanish from some of the neighborhood kids, and that was back in the 70s. The PR population is nothing new.
my PA Dutch friends call their grandparents 'Oma and Opa"
We say "Out'n the lights"
Yes, red up the room. Meaning, tidy up the room
LOL - as a native Pfälzer dialect speaker, this is so much a strait adaption of the Pfälzer "sproach" to the English language as possible. And as well a misch-masch (mix-mash) of Palatinate and English. BTW in return to the good-bye „Machs good“ in pälzisch you can say „Machs besser“ (machs better).
This is definitely accurate. I grew up in central PA and the Amish I encountered talked like this
You forgot to mention our favorite soda here in PA .... Birch Beer! :-D
Yes but did you ever chew the bark as a kid for the flavor?
@@rjoshb Isn't it only the bark on like the base of the tree
@@cisco8257 no we chewed it from the twigs. You know, we might have called that T-berry. I am not sure anymore.
@@rjoshb teaberry is a different very distinctive flavor that comes from the teaberry plant which is a ground vine. very small red berries. Impossible to describe the flavor lol
I love birch beer! PA native sadly now stuck in Virginia
My grandparents had a slight PA Dutch accent, and I grew up using a lot of "dutchisms", most of which I dropped. Some are "dippy eggs", "the _ is all", "verhuddled", and using "once" at the end of phrases/sentences. I still use "rutsch" now and then.
I went to Kutztown and got interested in language and culture because of this one teacher, i didnt hear anyone speak that way… but i have now heard this guy and dutch master morgan!!! Legit accent! Probably spoken in Berks, Schuylkill, Lancaster and other counties
I‘m back. I grew up in Berks County my grand parents spoke like this and used words like schnully and doppich. I am very praud to be decendent from those people. I love your channel, it is like a visit home everytime. I also think you fill the good professor‘s shoes very well.
Ich habe deinen Kanal erst heute Nacht entdeckt. Ich finde deinen Kanal echt Spitze. Sehr interessanter deutscher Dialekt, den du auf deinem Kanal vorstellst. Ich komme aus Süddeutschland, genauer aus Baden-Württemberg, noch genauer aus der Nähe von Heidelberg. Wir haben hier auch einen interessanten Dialekt und ich bin fasziniert, dass esauch in Amerika verschiedene deutsche Dialekte gibt. Werde versuchen, mehr deiner Videos zu sehen und werde bestimmt den einen oder anderen zu kommentieren. Soll ich deutsch oder englisch schreiben? Ich kann beide Sprachen . Mach weiter so, ich freue mich
I grew up in the Oley area and my grandfather's from Kutztown, this stuff is close to home! I'm also currently taking a PA Dutch class at Kutztown University, so this is neat stuff that you're doing! Thank you!
Sounds like a strange German accent with elements of a Boston accent, an Irish accent, and a Wisconsin or Minnesota accent mixed in to it.
Pittsburgh accent, too...
Pine Grove, Pennsylvania Dutch territory here.
haha this is kinda funny and interesting to me at the same time
i'm german(the real thing lol) myself and can see a lot of similarities between the usual german i speak and the pennsylvania dutch accent, tho the accent is more similar with south-west german accents.
+tmzson Many German American and the same for German American immigration of the XVIIth which gave mostly Pennsylvanian German American (Lutheranist or Anabaptist) were mostly Rhinelanders or Palatines. The same for German Brazilian immigration too!
+tmzson There were some Bavarian in the XIXth century too emigrating to the USA.
A lot of Swiss came to this area too, especially in the Amish population
As a Swiss grown up bilingual in the Netherlands I loved hearing you pronounce caramel and aluminum because that was exactly how I pronounced them when I moved to the US.
A European saying aluminum?
you can tell he's leaning into it a bit
Hey nah, havin' graun up in Lancaster Conty, I can relate!
This made my heart so happy! Many of my older relatives spoke this way but it really has faded out through the generations. I'm from Carbon County PA.
Glad you found the video. Please check out all of the other videos here on the channel! Tons of great PA Dutch content!
I've been searching for what a farmer in Montgomery or Berks county might have sounded like in the 1800's for a play. This is fabulous help!
My in laws would say "Has the mailman gone yet?" First time I heard that I was like "Where did he go?" No they said, Has he WENT yet? This is getting crazier by the second!! You mean "Has the mailman come by?" Yeah! Has he went. WTF???
I like your in-laws!
@@adrenalinsam In Pennsylvania? Maybe Indiana County?
Aaahhh no way, my grandparents/dad are from Readding, spent every christmas holiday there. It's nice to hear the accent again.
I moved from PA to,Kansas for 8 years and everyone said I had a PA dutch accent bit I didn't know what they meant, I never thought I had any accent. I love this
Subscribed! I grew up outside of fivepointville, PA, and everything you said sounds absolutely normal to me. To others, we say things backwards. I often get confused stares when I use words like doplich, wutz, spritzing, kutzing, and so on.
Still common where I live today in the Lehigh Valley. I remember all the time as I kid, the radio commercial for Trinkles in Fogelsville was done with a heavy accent "Dontchaknow... chust the vay vee like it"
"No, not Johnny, CHONNEY!"
Reminds me if Chinese and German had a baby.
There's a joke about an "english" coming to Kutztown looking for the chinese restaurant he'd heard so much about named "Willy Chin's". When he found it the sign out front read "Village Inn"
this is so oddly comforting! I grew up in ephrata and this makes me so happy!
Glad to bring a smile to your face!
This was wonderful 😊 My fathers parents were American born German, buy all his older relatives spoke like this. I love remembering how they referred to my dad as Chonny (John) ❤
"Toilet paper is expensive"
That sure aged well
I grew up in a small town in the Lehigh Valley. My dad is of german descent and his family came over from Germany in the late 1700’s. I grew up with the german accent and it totally sounds like this.
Wow I grew up next to Amish neighbors and his accent takes me back.
This guy is Hilarious!! I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. Absolutely loved it.
Yup, pretty accurate. I’ve heard my grandparents and other family members say “oh yumma yeah” in Lancaster county. I also heard “yous” but until now I guess I didn’t know that was PA Dutch. “Make sure yous outten the light when you leave”. When people speak PA Dutch they sound like they’re speaking German for the most part. It’s when they speak English that they have the accent.
I wish he would have said “Van” or something with a V. My grandma would say, “wan”. Just as in German, the “V” sound isn’t really there.
awesome!! I grew up in Berks County!! My dad spoke PA Dutch all the time!! It was chust wonderful nice. If you ain't PA Dutch....you ain't much!!!
I love it! My grandmother's mom was PA Dutch (German &Swiss) and Lenni Lenape(Munsee) Indian. I have loads of cousins in northeast PA and can still hear some of that accent. Also confirm that grandparents were referred to as Mom and Pop.
Oh man...mine too...I wish we could connect. Iʻd love to talk genealogy.
Really cool video, thanks so much for sharing!
This was great! Your accent is unusual and really interesting - not quite like anything else. I love how animated you are too. You should act!
I grew up in Lebanon, Pa and now live in Arizona. My accent isn't as hard as his and sometimes I really have to think about how I say things....otherwise, the looks I get from people are crazy. I'm always getting asked where I'm from.
Man, the way he says "blue' as 'Bloo' is SO spot on haha.
I love this so much.
This is amazing and weird, even if he did exaggerate it, because he only knows it from his relatives or grandparents. I'm from Germany and it sounds like a weird mixture of someone who speaks English with a German accent and something pretty unique, like I can tell it originated from German speaking countries but was changed over the centuries. In some of his sentences, he uses grammar like in the German language, just translated to English and modified a little. Quite unique! I hope it doesn't go extinct.
My grandparents (b. 1878) were PA Dutch. Grammy grew up on a farm in Berks County, quit school in 8th grade, her parents (b. 1856) needed her to help on the farm along with her 13 brothers and sisters. His accent is pretty spot on. My biggest regret was not learning the dialect from my grandmother. I know phrases and still pepper my language with 'colloquialisms' from Pa Dutch, such as '(pardon the spelling) 'Ach du lieber', 'rutch around', 'dumkupp', 'hog maw', etc.
Thanks for this.im reading a book but I felt like the accent was off and now I can hear you:)
My paternal grandmother was PD and her family moved to Canada. I spent a lot of time with her as a young child and know I understand why Yiddish sounds so familiar to me.
These guys do a great job.
I need this guy to come hang out, the accent is awkwardly soothing. He can talk me to sleep anytime!
I have been enlightened and educated my brothers. Very well done video. Auf Wiedersehen....
My great grandmother had this accident even my grandfather passed away two years ago had several words that he would still say rather strangely to the rest of us given that he had grown up most of his life in South Jersey. His parents though we're both from up in Pennsylvania and I remember a lot of the older members of my family talking like this.
I'm from North Eastern Pennsylvania born and raised in Potter County Pa, but my family is told we have an Irish lilt to our voice. We say fur(for), yer(your), prit-near(pretty near or almost) They call it coal speak up here, paper hankies, ect. but I live around Amish so yeah I've heard that accent a lot, my Great Grandmother was Pennsylvania Dutch.
+XtremeKaiba I come from Lycoming County, you sound just normal to me. We come from a cross-roads of Dutch, Welsh and Scots-Irish. Also a surprising number of Connecticuters left over from the Pennamite War
+XtremeKaiba I come from Lycoming County, you sound just normal to me. We come from a cross-roads of Dutch, Welsh and Scots-Irish. Also a surprising number of Connecticuters left over from the Pennamite War
Potter cawnne!!! I have a cabin up there.
redleg56 Williamsport up!
My Alma Mater is Mansfield University. My accent is more Western PA with a smidge of PA Dutch from my Mom's side, but I always loved hearing the locals talk in Tioga County. Love that nasal lilt. The accent up around Buff/Rochester is horrid, but I love the way the good ole' country folk sound in the Twin Tiers.
You two are adorable. Thank u.
I don't know why but I can't stop freggin laughing at the accent I absolutely love it
i am PA Dutch and grew up north of Allentown that is how we spoke alot of old folks came to visit and spoke dutch. it took yrs to loose the accent but now I am in upstate NY and live near the amish so the accent is coming back I remember alot of the sayings
I grew up with a thin one, but I quickly lost it the moment I went to college. I kind of just end up unintentionally adopting the accent of wherever I live. I can do accents for several different parts of the US but my pa dutch is gone. I can't even fake it anymore, I can spot it from across a room though
I've lived "in the area" (but up narth) for 30 years. We moved here during the Great Jersey Tax Migration of 89. My "joisey" accent sounds foreign when I visit folks back home now. But this is straight up homeland accent here :)
This is the best thing ever!
I love Pennsylvania Dutch. A lot of them are like this and quite expressive.
My Swiss German Grandmother learned Swiss German in the Baltimore Public schools around 1900. Hallo....Grüezi mitenand!!
When I'm homesick I like to watch this video and videos on the Appalachian accent. Around my way we had an interesting mix of both depending on the generation and township the speaker was raised in. Me, I don't think I have any accent, or if anything, I think I've adopted the NJ accent, but on rare occasions a listener with a good ear will give me a bemused smile and ask if I'm from of Pennsylvania. Its often the same phrase that perks people's ears -"come with" - as in "I'm going to the store, wanna come with?" Is that a Pennsylvania kind of phrase?
Yep! Direct translation from PA Dutch: Kumm mit!
Love it! Brings back fond memories of my grandparents!
Born and raised in Hamburg PA
Andrea Dautrich
I know Hamburg like the back of my hand!
My grandparents talk just like this!
I have family in Berks County PA, this is EXACTLY how they sound!
Fantastic. Sounds a lot like my anabaptist neighbors here on the elkhart/lagrange county line, northern indiana
My Grandfather, who learned English in school at 5 years old, sounded slightly similar to this fella. He had the flattened dipthongs "Haas, Dahnstairs, Dahntahn". Beaut-ee-ful day ahtsuyde, eh Curl? (Carl was pronounced Curl). Lots of long e sounds: Att-ee-tude, Dee-liv-ree, Ree-dic-ulous.
I love it! Fantastic!
this vid is so fire 💖
facts bro
My cousin lives in Chermany and has an accent just like this!
This is how my grandfather talks! His is real thick. Some people can't understand him, and sometimes when he talks to my mom over the phone I can't understand him either, but my mom and aunts and uncles are basically certified translators. lol
This is fascinating. All these different US accents
grew up in Red Lion PA. vonce now any how"
that's a very accurate accent!!! and it's nice to hear
The Pennsylvania Dutch I know say you'uns, or you'unses. He has a bit of an Irish accent, it seems, to me. I'm from Texas and have lived in the Pennsylvania Dutch area in the south central area of Pennsylvania the last 12 years, and when I first arrived, it was a culture shock. LOL
They also say read (pronounced red) up when cleaning the table after supper, or tidying up a room. They also have a past tense of let. Example: the phrase in the Merle Haggard song is the bottle let me down; here they say the bottle left me down. And, when calling someone and they get an answering machine they say they let a message. And, when their dog needs to go outside and potty, they say I am going to leave the dog out, instead of I'm going to let the dog out. It's amazing how the USA is so diverse and so different from area to area.
Growing up in Texas, and getting used to the way things were, I naturally assumed everyone talked like we did, and used our slang, and sayings, etc. Food, language, customs, values, ways of life...all so different all over the USA. Who needs to travel the world to get some culture when you can get it right here in the States?...lol.
2023 in Germany we still say "machs gut". Although that gets old and most say ciao.
In my area of Pee Aye, rolly polly are also called a Cellar Worm
So Pa Dutch to completely go off on a tangent!!😂 We are story tellers buggy- shopping buggy
i grew up in the LV (Easton) and always associated the old PA Dutch with the area around Emmaus, Macungie and Kutztown. Funny, I lived down in Louisiana for many years and one of our peculiar PA dutch habits (that I wasn't self-aware of) drove my ex insane: the way we use "all of" to mean "the rest of."
"Hun, did you eat all of the cookies?"
"WHAT? DO YOU THINK I'M A PIG WHO'D EAT A WHOLE BAG OF COOKIES?"
"You know what I meant..."
"Oh yeah. Dammit learn to speak American..."
Not "out-en the light"? I seem to remember elderly relatives giving me that direction to flip the light off.
I love how the other guy keeps going off on tangents
Yup, my uncle was Chun Etwart (John Edward).
I live in Erie, PA. I'm not quite sure what you would call that regions accent?
I am from northwestern Lehigh County, but don't live there anymore . New Tripoli and Germansville sound a lot similar but as the old farmers pass on the dialect seems to be disappearing. After watching this video I suddenly remembered how Dutchy I still sound and I moved away over 30 years ago. This is really well done! Gut Chob
You didn't mention reading up the room....
My grandmother was born in Lancaster County, PA in 1876 and I wanted to hear what her accent might have sounded like; she died when I was 3, in 1960. I recognized a few pronunciations from my childhood -- "crick" was one, and when the milk is gone, the milk is "all." I never thought about "all" being Pennsylvania Dutch. My dad retained one PA Dutch phrase that he passed down to me, the only thing I ever learned. When a stray dog wandered onto our property -- this happened about twice when I was growing up -- heʻd get all animated and yell *"gayshta hommitcha, ya dracky hundt ya!!!"* Itʻs one of those unforgettable moments when youʻre a kid. I have passed that phrase on to my kids.
These two would make a good comedy team! Really enjoyed this.
Check out my playlist for Ask A PA Dutchman.
Will do! Thanks.
This is excellent stuff. :)
My maternal grandparents were from south allentown and paternal grandparents from north side....they all talked like this. I wish I could hear them now. Unfortunately they all have passed.
My grandma cant say the name John correctly..she says Jun. I have a messed up mix of PA Dutch and Eastern NC accent since I moved down south when I was 11.