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2. Pennsylvania Dutch - Wikipedia

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   An alternative interpretation commonly found among laypeople and scholars alike is that the Dutch in Pennsylvania Dutch is an anglicization or "corruption" (folk-etymological re-interpretation) of the Pennsylvania German autonym deitsch, which in the Pennsylvania German language refers to the Pennsylvania Dutch or Germans in general.

3. Fancy Dutch - Wikipedia

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   Just as Fancy Dutch or their descendants no longer speak the Pennsylvania Dutch language with any regularity (or at all, in many cases), they are not necessarily religious anymore, meaning that calling them "Church Dutch" is no longer particularly apt, although even among those that no longer regularly attend any church, many remain cultural ...

4. List of U.S. state welcome signs - Wikipedia

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   Welcome sign for Hawaii: Idaho A welcome sign for Idaho, with a smaller sign noting entry into Pacific Standard Time: Illinois The Illinois welcome sign, with the second I replaced by the state's shape: Indiana Welcome sign for Indiana, with the text over a red shape of the state: Iowa Iowa welcome sign on Interstate 29: Kansas Welcome sign for ...

5. Hex sign - Wikipedia

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   Hex signs are a form of Pennsylvania Dutch folk art, related to fraktur, found in the Fancy Dutch tradition in Pennsylvania Dutch Country. [1] Barn paintings, usually in the form of "stars in circles", began to appear on the landscape in the early 19th century and became widespread decades later when commercial ready-mixed paint became readily ...

6. Fraktur (folk art) - Wikipedia

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   Fraktur is a highly artistic and elaborate illuminated folk art created by the Pennsylvania Dutch, named after the Fraktur script associated with it. Place of creation also includes Alsace, Switzerland, and Rhineland which are also contributed to the folk art. [1]

7. Distelfink - Wikipedia

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   It frequently appears in Pennsylvania Dutch folk art. [2] It represents happiness and good fortune and the Pennsylvania German people, and is a common theme in hex signs and in fraktur. The word distelfink (literally 'thistle-finch') is (besides Stieglitz) the German name for the European goldfinch. [3]