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7 Mennonite F-Words Everyone Should Know
Of course, we have “the” F-word, too, but I’ve already drank enough castor oil in my life that I don’t want to go down that road. Here are 7 other F-words that are essential to […]
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Mennonite Man Switches Between English and Plautdietsch a Record 3000 Times in a Single Conversation
STEINBACH, MB Local man Earl Peters reverted to Plautdietsch more than 3000 times during an hour-long conversation about beets with his friend Dan Friesen at the coffee shop this past week. The intermittent Plautdietsch usage […]
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How’s Your Plautdietsch? Test Your Knowledge of Mennonite Low German.
Many Swiss Mennonites and Amish speak Pennsylvania Dutch. (You can test your knowledge of that language here). However, the language of many Russian Mennonites is known as Plautdietsch or Low German. Alright, so, Kjenn jie […]
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Grandma Friesen Totally Schools Grandchildren in Plautdietsch Scrabble Match
WINKLER, MB Grandma Friesen, 75, handily beat three young grandchildren this week in a rousing game of Plautdietsch Scrabble. The match, which lasted just thirty minutes before the youngsters quit in disgust, was the first […]
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Mennonite Man’s Vocabulary Reduced to ‘Once’, ‘Yet’, and ‘Such’
YARROW, BC There was a time when George Baerg’s vocabulary stretched to more than thirty words and an occasional ethusiastic ‘oba!’ These days, however, Mr. Baerg, now retired and extra grumpy, has settled on ‘once’, ‘yet’, and […]