German dialect in Texas

[Wilson Gray]

There's also a Texas Czech dialect. The actress, Sissy Spacek
([SpaCEk] = "sparrow"), is probably the best-known member of that
community.

-Wilson

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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> http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4361488.html
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