German dialect in Texas

[Dennis R. Preston]

Yes, Wilson, and, alas, like much of West Slavic, that spacek (little
sparrow) is a loan from German (Spatz).

dInIs

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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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