Editing Pennsylvania Dutch language (section)

==Interaction with English==
{{See also|Pennsylvania Dutch English}}
[[File:Deitsch 2015-01.jpg|thumb|[[Pennsylvania Dutch]] arts history in Pennsylvania Dutch language]]
The people from southern Germany, eastern France and Switzerland, where the Pennsylvania Dutch culture and dialect sprung, started to arrive in North America in the late 17th and the early 18th centuries, before the beginning of the [[Industrial Revolution]].{{Citation needed|date=January 2009}} To a more limited extent, that is also true of a second wave of immigration in the mid-19th century, which came from the same regions, but settled more frequently in Ohio, Indiana, and other parts of the Midwest.{{Citation needed|date=January 2009}} Thus, an entire industrial vocabulary relating to electricity, machinery and modern farming implements has naturally been borrowed from the English. For Pennsylvania Dutch speakers who work in a modern trade or in an industrial environment, this could potentially increase the challenge of maintaining their mother tongue.

Numerous English words have been borrowed and adapted for use in Pennsylvania Dutch since the first generations of Pennsylvania German habitation of southeastern Pennsylvania. Examples of English loan words that are relatively common are {{lang|pdc|bet}} ({{lang|pdc|Ich bet, du kannscht Deitsch schwetze}} 'I bet you can speak Pennsylvania Dutch'), {{lang|pdc|depend}} ({{lang|de|Es dependt en wennig, waer du bischt}} 'it depends somewhat on who you are'); {{lang|pdc|tschaepp}} for 'chap' or 'guy'; and {{lang|pdc|tschumbe}} for 'to jump'. Today, many speakers will use Pennsylvania Dutch words for the smaller numerals and English for larger and more complicated numbers, like $27,599.

Conversely, although many among the earlier generations of Pennsylvania Dutch could speak English, they were known for speaking it with a strong and distinctive accent. Such [[Pennsylvania Dutch English]] can still sometimes be heard. Although the more-recently coined term is being used in the context of this and related articles to describe this Pennsylvania Dutch-influenced English, it has traditionally been referred to as "Dutchy" or "Dutchified" English.