From: Rick McCallister
Message: 63439
Date: 2009-02-26
--- On Wed, 2/25/09, Andrew Jarrette <anjarrette@...> wrote:
. . .
>
> >
> > On another subject:
> > Chasing links I fell over this
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_Dutch
> >
> http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/ginn001hand01_01/ginn001hand01_01_0012.htm
> >
> http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/daan001ikwa01_01/daan001ikwa01_01_0003.htm
> > http://www.bartleby.com/185/a12.html
> >
> >
> > Torsten
> >
>
> These links are all very interesting, presenting much
> information
> about North American Dutch dialects I never knew (but
> always
> suspected) existed.
>
> Andrew
I was a bit intrigued by the Dutch word jongens --which seems very close to American English slang young'ns, usually seen as slang for "young ones"
but we don't have a corresponding "old'ns", although I have occasionally heard "bigg'n".