Re: American Dutch dialects

--- On Sun, 3/1/09, Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

> From: Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham@...>
> Subject: [tied] Re: American Dutch dialects
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sunday, March 1, 2009, 7:56 AM
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen"
> <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > I've often wondered if the aberrant
> pronunciation of <often> with a
> > > /t/ sprang from Midwestern Germans who learned
> English from hyper-
> > > corrective schoolmarms.
> >
> > In this case more than likely helped by the fact that
> the
> > corresponding German word is 'oft'.
>
> English _oft_ is common enough in hymns.
>
> Richard.

And there is oftimes --a bit archaic and poetics