This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vm.2ADE/1184.1 Message Board Post: My grandfather was also German but died young leaving my english grandmother. She lived with her husband and parents for awhile and had many expressions from that family including: "You're speaking 'Dutch'!" "Don't be Deutsch sprechen!" "Das ist heis!" "Du bist ein dumbkopf!" I also wondered before we did the geneology if they could have been dutch but now believe that "dutch" in Central Kansas among the immigrants was an anglicized version of "Deutsch". During the first world war, it was illegal to speak german in public or on the telephone in some states. Iowa had such a law. And in any event it was not approved of. I think that the first two expressions from above, stem from that time. My German families come from Harper County around Freeport, KS.