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L O W L A N D S - L * 21 October 2006 * Volume 02
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From: John Duckworth [johncduckworth at yahoo.co.uk]
Subject: Not sure which category to choose!

Dear Lowlanders!

I may have asked this question on this list before, but if so I
suspect I would have done so at the time of excesssive activity since I
still feel I must ask again.

Is any of you aware of any books, scholarly treatments or articles
in scholarly journals concerning the Dutch language in America? I have
come across some remarks in Mencken's 'The American Language', but
apart from that there seem to be surprisingly few sources. Dutch seems
to have been spoken as a native language in the United States at least
into the first two decades of the twentieth century, so there surely
must be sources testifying to its phonological features or grammar? I
scoured Amsterdam bookshops during the first five months of 2006, but
failed to discover any books on the subject. 

I know there is a book by Edelmann called 'Dutch Language Press in
America, Two Centuries of Printing, Publishing & Bookselling '; I
haven't seen this book although I may well order it, but I am fairly
sure that it does not cover the field I am interested in. The website http://www.godutch.com/windmill/newsItem.asp?id=268 is also very intersting, but lacks specific details. ''N Fonnie Bisnis: The Yankee Dutch World of Loe Verlak, " with CD (Audio)
is something that I have also not seen, but I wonder whether it is
really an account of 'Yankee Dutch', perhaps someone could tell me
whether the book is merely a spook or a true account of the Yankee
version of Dutch.

I did purchase a copy of Herbert J. Brinks, Dutch American Voices: Letters from the United States, 1850-1930
(1995); if only the author had included the texts of the original
letters I might have had some material from which I could glean some
details of American ( Specifically US) Dutch idiosyncrasies.

Anyway, Lowlanders, there must be someone out there who can give
some idea of where I can find books or articles dealing with the nitty
gritty of the Dutch language in the Eastern US.

John Duckworth

Manchester

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