The Daily Bonnet has created this fun quiz to test your knowledge of the Pennsylvania Dutch language. Let’s see how you do. (You can also test your knowledge of Plautdietsch, spoken by Russian Mennonites here.)
[os-widget path=”/dailybonnet/test-your-knowledge-of-pennsylvania-dutch” of=”dailybonnet” comments=”false”]
STEINBACH, MB Area man Peter Berg still insists after all these years that he doesn’t have a Plautdietsch accent at all. “Ats all deeze Enjelsch who have da acksant yat,” he said in perfectly fluent […]
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 […]
WINKLER, MB Relatives at an Ens family gathering this past week reluctantly obliged their 90-year-old matriarch by singing a verse of ‘Holy God, We Praise Thy Name’ in German even though they had already sung […]
Copyright © 2024 The Unger Review - All Rights Reserved