Re: American Dutch dialects

--- On Sun, 3/1/09, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> From: tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
> Subject: [tied] Re: American Dutch dialects
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sunday, March 1, 2009, 12:18 PM
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew Jarrette"
> <anjarrette@...> wrote:
> >
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard
> Wordingham"
> > <richard.wordingham@> wrote:
> > >
> > > --- 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.
> >
> > And as a prefix: the oft-maligned Mr. Schwartz, e.g.
>
> I think I'll go get a soften-ice.
>
>
> Torsten

Don't /saftn tuw aftn aez yuw lIstn tuw aur ipIstlz/