Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Quaint Idioms and Expressions of the Pennsylvania Germans
The Yankee furnishes a field for research in many different ways, not excluding his everyday use Of the english-american language. The South, West, the mid-west; the mountain sections Of the Appalachian range, all have outstanding phrases and expressions that are frowned on by the scholars and pedagogues. These are just a few general sections at large where we find the language to be different from what She' s taught.
In a swing around the circle of New England one can hear English words used, not in conformity with the pronunciations given in Webster's, or any other dictionary.
Also we can travel throughout the State of Penn sylvania and meet in country and town as well, many persons, who, in expressing themselves in the ordin ary English conversation, will use many Odd words not in an English or American dictionary, and scarcely in one Of dialect words, or even of slang.
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