It’s hard to hold a baby when he’s rutching around. Rutching, or rutsching, which means slipping, sliding, and squirming around, comes from German, and is used in the United States in with a Pennsylvania Dutch history. This is part of a...
What crawled over your liver? This Pennsylvania Dutch idiom means “What’s the matter with you?” This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Pennsylvania Dutch Saying” Here is something that we haven’t...
If you say to someone the Spanish equivalent of “you’re giving me green gray hairs” (me sacas canas verdes), it means that person is making you angry. In Japan, the phrase that literally translates as “one red dot”...
A California college student is campaigning for international scientific authorities to adopt the slang term hella as an official prefix indicating a huge number. Will he succeed? Also, how to pronounce niche, the regional terms doppick and nixie...
Steva, a small-animal veterinarian in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, has learned that a doppick dog is clumsy or uncoordinated. The word is a borrowing from Pennsylvania German, ultimately from the German Doppich, meaning clumsy or awkward. A nixie cat...