[Info-vax] Long uptime cut short by Hurricane Sandy

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <00ACF00C.A458C945 at sendspamhere.org>,
	VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
> In article <kfp86d$dcm$1 at dont-email.me>, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>>Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>> In article <kfohgf$e23$1 at dont-email.me>,
>>> 	David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>>>> Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>>>> In article <00ACEFA0.609F6A62 at sendspamhere.org>,
>>>>> 	VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
>>>>>> In article <ao8874Fd1uoU1 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>>>>>>> In article <00ACEF2F.64E50CF6 at sendspamhere.org>,
>>>>>>> 	VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
>>>>>>>> In article <1Pz8et8m7O9A at eisner.encompasserve.org>, koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
>>>>>>>>> In article 
>>>>>>>>> <3edb6d1f-62fb-4263-8005-fbde774ca26b at fn10g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>,
>>>>>>>>>  Rich Jordan <jordan at ccs4vms.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Our university english lit prof told the likely apocryphal tale of her
>>>>>>>>>> English professor telling his students that after long and careful
>>>>>>>>>> study, he had determined that the only word in the English language
>>>>>>>>>> where s followed by a vowel was pronounced as 'sh' was sumac.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> One of his students asked, 'Professor, are you sure?'
>>>>>>>>>   This is more interesting than it may seem.  I had to check that
>>>>>>>>>   Merriam Webster claims sumac starts with the "sh" sound.  After
>>>>>>>>>   living in Iowa, Louisiana, Virginia, Illinois, Michigan, NJ,
>>>>>>>>>   and Maryland, I've never once heard it pronounced that way.
>>>>>>>> You should have lived in Pennsylvania! ;)
>>>>>>> I live in PA and I have lived in over a dozen differnt states and
>>>>>>> a bunch of counturies and I have never heard it pronounced with the
>>>>>>> "sh" sound either.
>>>>>> In heavy PA Dutch areas?
>>>>> Can't imagine why.  It isn't pronounced with the "sh" sound in German
>>>>> either.  Only difference between German and English is the pronounciation
>>>>> of the "a".
>>>>>
>>>>> And for those who think "He said Dutch, not German" :-) the word in 
>>>>> Dutch is "sumak".  Still no "sh".
>>>>>
>>>>> bill
>>>>>  
>>>>>
>>>> Ah, but you omitted the interesting reason why they are called 
>>>> "Pennsylvania Dutch".
>>> 
>>> Cause Pennsylvanians were stupid?  
>>> 
>>> bill
>>> 
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>>I believe the german word for german is something like deutch.  Probably 
>>misspelled.  So when they were asked where they were from, they replied 
>>deutch, and so the Pennsylvanians called them dutch.
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> Deutsch.
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>>As for the mental capability of the average Pennsylvanian, I'm not going 
>>there ....
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> Pennsylvania German/Pennsylvania D(e)ut(s)ch is a german dialect.  The folks
> at home always referred to it a Dutch.  Time to go now throw the horse over
> the fence some hay. ;)

Not even close to "Dutch".  Can't speak "Dutch" without theat "ij"
dipthong.  :-)  I used to love that tile in Scrabble at the NCO tent
when in the field with the Flemish Signal Unit.

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>>Probably more than you wanted to know ...
> 
> Das wundert mich.

bill

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Bill Gunshannon          |  de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n.  Three wolves
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