"Regional speech may be fading, but..."

[Laurence Horn]

Other than that dubious starting premise, this is a sorta fun piece
on the "Dutchified" English of Lancaster, PA and environs in today's
Times, with a lot of nice (if not particularly novel) data:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/06/20/travel/escapes/20rituals.html?scp=1&sq=Lancaster&st=nyt

One cute feature that I'm sure has been commented on by others is the
(unsurprising) resemblance of the syntax of the dialect being
described to that of Yinglish (mutatis mutandis, so it's "Throw
Father down the stairs his hat" instead of "Throw Mama from the train
a {kiss/knish}").

LH

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