Re: Getting into Dutch

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:

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> --- On Wed, 2/25/09, Andrew Jarrette <anjarrette@...> wrote:
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> > > On another subject:
> > > Chasing links I fell over this
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_Dutch
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> > http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/ginn001hand01_01/ginn001hand01_01_0012.htm
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> > http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/daan001ikwa01_01/daan001ikwa01_01_0003.htm
> > > http://www.bartleby.com/185/a12.html
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> > > Torsten
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> > These links are all very interesting, presenting much information
> > about North American Dutch dialects I never knew (but always
> > suspected) existed.
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> > Andrew
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> 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".

It may be so, though 'jongens' appears in the Standard Dutch text not
the Jersey Dutch one, but the word most certainy have been around. You
might recall Brian's and mine discussion on the origin of 'schooner',
there may be more such 'hidden' loans from Dutch.


Torsten