Re: American Dutch dialects

--- On Fri, 2/27/09, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> From: tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
> Subject: [tied] Re: American Dutch dialects
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Friday, February 27, 2009, 12:39 PM
> > The problem is that Dutch probably died out in NYC
> around or before
> > 1700. NYC was already majority English speaking under
> Dutch rule.
> > Dutch only survived out in a few back-water areas.
>
> But the question is whether NYC English picked up manners
> or words
> from Dutch.
>
> > I don't know how long Dutch survived in Delaware
> or South Jersey.
>
> Till early 20th century in Passaic and Bergen County, which
> is not
> South Jersey.
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/63429
>
> The problem is you don't read the links I provide.
>
>
> Torsten

I do, but Passaic and Bergen Counties were backwaters until the mid-1900s, when they became suburbs