# Dorpish Dialect

*The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 22 Feb 2001*

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### Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
*22 Feb 2001, 08:32*

Yodese Dorpish dialect is not. Never have any of you Lancaster
County, Pennsylvania, visited? The Dorpish in the dialect of
the (older) Pennsylvania Dutch speak.

With, perhaps, a nod to Mark Twain's "The Awful German Language."

--Dan'l


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