TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, Prof Compiles Dictionary Buffington Seeks Pa. Dutch Words Few Can Talk Dialect Today By SUE EBERLY "Kannscht du Deitsch sch wetze?" "Yes," would say Dr. Albert Buffington, professor of Ger man, and his reply would be almost unique, for today there are only a few hundred thou sand people in the world who can still speak the language of the Pennsylvania Dutch. Realizing that this is fast be coming a lost art, Buffington for the past 14 years has been record ing the songs, rhymes, and speech of the Pennsylvania Dutch years before they can be forgotten for ever. The end result of these record ings will be a German dialect dictionary on which Buffington has been working for many years. In search of new words for his dictionary, Buffington makes contacts with people who can speak the dialect in Pennsyl vania. He has found that wid ows and older people are his best informants since "they are lonely and are flattered that they are helping someone." While asking if they remember any Pennsylvania Dutch songs, rhymes, or holidays and how they were celebrated, Buffington takes the conversations down on tape in hopes of hearing new words. One interview lasted three hours. Some contacts have yielded no results. Through his radio program "Der Nixnutz"—translated the "mis chievous one"—which he gave weekly over Station WKOK, Sun bury, for 13 ye a ra, Buffing ton often gained an "in" with people who might otherwise have given him no information. • "People who might lave said 'no, I don't remember any Penn sylvania Dutch, recognised my name when I mentioned the program and were willing to Salk to me and to try to recall incidents from their childhood." Often, Buffington has found that many who could once speak the dialect are now too old to recall it. "Sometimes with a little priming, they're able to remem ber words, but . often they can not," he said. 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