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)

Publisher of text edition

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 small-town Pennsylvania doctor who also wrote history, poetry, and newspaper columns, he helped preserve the sound and humor of Pennsylvania Dutch life in print. His work moves easily between local history and lively dialect writing.

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