Die Inshurance Business A serio-comic drama in the Pennsylvania German vernacular, "as she is spoke" in the German districts of Pennsylvania

by Ezra Grumbine

DE·~27 minutes·1 chapter

Chapters

1 total

Transcriber’s Note: Obvious printer’s errors, such as inconsistent spelling of the characters’ names, have been corrected.

27:54

Description

Dialogue is in Pennsylvania German dialect.

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Die Inshurance Business A serio-comic drama in the Pennsylvania German vernacular, "as she is spoke" in the German districts of Pennsylvania A serio-comic drama in the Pennsylvania German vernacular, "as she is spoke" in the German districts of Pennsylvania

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~27 minutes (26K characters)

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2018-04-25

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57044

Subjects

Pennsylvania German dialect -- Texts Pennsylvania Dutch Country (Pa.) -- Drama PF

About the author

Ezra Grumbine

1845–1923

A country doctor and local historian from Pennsylvania, he also became a lively voice in Pennsylvania German writing. His poems, essays, and newspaper columns helped preserve the humor, folklore, and everyday speech of his region.

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