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.
"Many of the people that I've
contacted who have given me new
words have died shortl after-
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A STUDY OF PENNSYLVANIA DIALECT is the principal hobby
of Dr. Albert Buffington, professor of German. Buffington is re
cording the songs, rhymes and words of the Dutch to preserve
the dialect.
wards of old age," he added. "If
I had waited only a few weeks
more, those words would have
been lost forever."
"The compilation of these
words into a dictiohary may
take years," Buffington ex
plained, since there are so few
people who have the necessary
background in standard Ger
man and the Pennsylvania
Dutch dialect.
As a native Pennsylvania
Dutchman of Pillow, Pa., Buffing
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interviewing his family, rela
tives and friends. From these peo
ple he reached out to people in
the other Pennsylvania Dutch
counties.
He majored in German in col
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at the University of New Hamp
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Pennsylvania Dutch, and also a
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