READING, Pa. — It’s hip to be Deitsch. That’s good news for Pop-Pop, bad news if you bet the farm that Pennsylvania German would disappear from the face of the Earth during your lifetime. But it’s ...

READING – It’s hip to be Deitsch. That’s good news for Pop-Pop, bad news if you bet the farm that Pennsylvania German would disappear from the face of the Earth during your lifetime. But it’s still ...

Wann du des lese kannscht, dann wescht Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch. If you can’t understand that previous sentence, then maybe you don’t speak or understand Pennsylvania Dutch. But perhaps you’ve heard ...

As the Kutztown Folk Festival came to a close Sunday, vendors wrapped up hex signs, finished the last of the apple butter, packed up barrels of birch beer and put fiddles back into their cases. For ...

English is grand, isn’t it, and not a little in part due to the slang which evolves from it. In the spirit of that, here are the top five most popular slang words in Pennsylvania. Those are the ...

It appears that other Americans have no idea what Pennsylvanians are saying when they’re speaking in slang. Preply employees then sent out a survey to over 1,000 respondents across the country to see ...

Pennsylvania Dutch is David Adam’s first language. Today, Adam and his wife Jean, both 76 of Orefield, instruct classes on the dialect and put on skits for attendees at the Kutztown Folk Festival.

Did you hear the one about the politician and what that guy said to him? Oh, wait, to really get this, you have to know the Pennsylvania Dutch dialect. That’s what it will take to be able to ...

Here's an amazing number. In 2007, an estimated 250,000 Americans could still fluently speak Pennsylvania German, often called Pennsylvania Dutch. And others beside the Amish are counted in that ...

Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, 2215 Millstream Road, will be hosting two, ten-week courses on the Pennsylvania Dutch dialect. A beginner class will meet from 7 to 9 p.m. on Tuesdays from Sept ...