Pennsylvania Dutch English is a dialect of English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 that has been influenced by Pennsylvania German

Pennsylvania German language

The Pennsylvania German language is a variety of West Central German possibly spoken by more than 250,000 people in North America...

. It is largely spoken in the South Central

South Central Pennsylvania

South Central Pennsylvania is a region of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania that includes the fourteen counties of Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Huntingdon, Juniata, Lancaster, Lebanon, Mifflin, Northumberland, Perry, Schuylkill, Snyder, and York....

 area of Pennsylvania, both by people who are monolingual (in English) and bilingual (in Pennsylvania German and English). The dialect has been dying out, as non-Amish Generation X

Generation X

Generation X, commonly abbreviated to Gen X, is the generation born after the Western post–World War II baby boom ended. While there is no universally agreed upon time frame, the term generally includes people born from the early 1960's through the early 1980's, usually no later than 1981 or...

 and Millennial Pennsylvania Germans tend to speak modern General American English (Midwestern Accent). Very few non-Amish members of these two generations can speak the Pennsylvania Dutch language, although most know some words and phrases.
The WWII Generation was the last generation in which Pennsylvania Dutch was widely spoken, outside of the Old Order Amish and Old Order Mennonite communities.

Features of Pennsylvania German Influence

Pennsylvania Dutch English differs from standard American English

American English

American English is a set of dialects of the English language used mostly in the United States. Approximately two-thirds of the world's native speakers of English live in the United States....

 in various ways. Some of its hallmark features include the following:

• Widespread devoicing
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   of obstruent
  Obstruent
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  s.
• The use of certain vowel variants in specific phonological
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   contexts.
• The use of Pennsylvania German verb
  Verb
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   and noun
  Noun
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   stems in word construction.
• Specific intonation patterns for questions.
• Special placement of prepositional phrases in sentences (so that "Throw the horse some hay over the fence" might be rendered "Throw the horse over the fence some hay").
• The use of "ain't" and "not" or "say" as question tags.
• The use of "still" as a habitual
  Habitual aspect
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   verbal marker.
• Use of the word "yet" to mean "still," such as "do you work at the store yet?" to mean "do you still work at the store?"
• Use of terms such as "doncha know" and "so I do" or "so he does" at the end of declaratory sentences.
• Use of the word "awhile" at the end of sentences proposing simultaneous actions (e.g. "Go get the tea out of the pantry; I'll start boiling the water awhile.").
• The use of "tree" instead of "three" to describe the number "3".

Other calques and idioms include:

Pennsylvania Dutch English	Standard English	Modern German
Make wet?	Is it going to rain?	Wird es regen?
Outen the lights.	Turn off the lights.	Mach das Licht aus.
The candy is all.	There is no more candy.	Die Süßigkeiten sind alle.
Don't eat yourself full.	Don't fill yourself up.	Iss dich nicht voll.
There's cake back yet.	There is cake to come.	Es gibt da noch Kuchen.
Red up the room.	Clean the room.	Räum das Zimmer auf.
It wonders me.	It makes me wonder.	Das wundert mich.
Hurrieder	Faster	Schneller
Spritzing	Lightly raining	nieseln
Rutsching	Squirming	auf dem Bauch rutschen
Schusslich	Clumsy with things usually due to hurrying	schusselig
Doplich	Clumsy with self	Tollpatschig sein.
Yah, well.	Whatever, or It makes no difference	Ja, wohl.
Wutz	Pig (when someone eats a lot)	die Wutz
Kutz / kutzing	Vomit / vomiting	die Kotze / kotzen
Wonnernaus	A polite way of saying "None of your business"
Schtriwwelich	Uncombed or stringy	strubbelig
Brutzing, Gretzing	Whining/complaining	Jammern, Klagen
Wuntz	for a second/real quick	Ein Moment.
Dippy ecks	over easy, soft-boiled eggs	Spiegeleier
Mox nix	irrelevant	Das macht nichts OR Macht's nichts.
Nix Nootz/Nix Nootzie	Misbehaving(usually referring to a little kid)	Nichtsnutz
Schnickelfritz	troublemaker(usually referring to a little kid)	Störenfried
All	None left/All gone	alle / leer
Right Like	exactly the same as	Genau wie

See also

• Central Pennsylvania accent
  Central Pennsylvania accent
  Central Pennsylvania speech is closely related to Western Pennsylvania speech, which is generally referred to as Pittsburgh English, although the speech extends beyond just the city of Pittsburgh, and also is closely related to the Southern accent, spoken in the Southeastern United States...
  
  
• Northeast Pennsylvania English
  Northeast Pennsylvania English
  Northeast Pennsylvania English is the local dialect of American English spoken in northeastern Pennsylvania, specifically in the Coal Region, which includes the cities of Hazleton, Pottsville, Wilkes-Barre and Scranton....
  
  
• Philadelphia dialect
  Philadelphia dialect
  The Philadelphia dialect is the dialect of English spoken in Philadelphia; and extending into Philadelphia's suburbs in the Delaware Valley and southern New Jersey. It is one of the best-studied dialects of American English since Philadelphia's University of Pennsylvania is the home institution of...
  
  
• North American English regional phonology#Northeastern dialects
• Regional vocabularies of American English
  Regional vocabularies of American English
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