German dialect in Texas

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:59 AM -0500 11/27/06, Dennis R. Preston wrote:
>Yes, Wilson, and, alas, like much of West Slavic, that spacek (little
>sparrow) is a loan from German (Spatz).
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>dInIs

Is it safe to assume that "hacek" (little upside down hat) is from German Hatz?

LH

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>>There's also a Texas Czech dialect. The actress, Sissy Spacek
>>([SpaCEk] = "sparrow"), is probably the best-known member of that
>>community.
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>>-Wilson
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>>On 11/27/06, william salmon <william.salmon at yale.edu> wrote:
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>>>  Hans Boas of UT Austin has an interesting preservation project for Texas
>>>  German. The Houston Chronicle reports, giving some statistics and
>>>history on
>>>  the state of German in Texas:
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