German dialect in Texas
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Mon Nov 27 16:32:36 UTC 2006
Well, that answers the question as to why the Czech word isn't
something based on the stem, *vrabi-, only to raise another: what
happened to Sperbe?
-Wilson
On 11/27/06, Dennis R. Preston <preston at msu.edu> wrote:
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> Yes, Wilson, and, alas, like much of West Slavic, that spacek (little
> sparrow) is a loan from German (Spatz).
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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
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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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