"The German word for rubber is Gummi" Mmmmm...hence the candy called Gummy Bears? They sure taste better than rubber bands! Jerilyn

Around here, we use the word 'dingy' (ding-ee) to indicate someone who is not playing with a full deck, a bit off kilter, squirrelly, or nuts! We're always telling our dog, Dancer, that she is a dingy dog because she gets crazy when she wants to play. <smile> Mary ----- Original Message ----- From: Richard Emlin Reed To: padutch-life@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 1:32 PM Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] Words and phrases Dingy is one of those words whose meaning is in the eye of the beholder. My American Heritage dictionary defines it as "Darkened with smoke and grime; dirty or discolored. 2. Shabby, drab, or squalid". My Webster's New World German Dictionary defines dingy as schmuddelig. In a display of inconsistency, they define schmudd(e)lig as messy, dirty, filthy. I always equated dingy with dark, gloomy. Dingy is pronounced DIN-jy. Dinghy, pronounced DING-Y, according to American Heritage, is 1. A small open boat carried as a tender, lifeboat, or pleasure craft on a larger boat. 2. A small rowboat. 3. An inflatable rubber life raft. The German word, as per Webster, is Schlauchboot. Richard Emlin Reed Wesley Chapel, FL ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lynn Vondran" <lynnvondran@att.net> To: <padutch-life@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 10:31 AM Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] Words and phrases > Dingy!! UGH!!! I just spent about 10 minutes looking up that word in the > dictionary. I couldn't find it at all. Of course, I wasn't looking for > the word, just the spelling. There is a difference. When looking for the > spelling, you aren't concentrating on any words that you see. I just > couldn't figure out WHY I couldn't find it!!! That is until I was going > to email the list for the spelling, and went to look at the title of > dictionary I was using to tell you all that I couldn't find it in.....are > you ready for this? > I had the wrong RED dictionary. Here I spent all that time looking in my > Spanish dictionary!!! My brother-in-law must have switched them, when he > was using my computer :o) LOL, the way the brain works at times_well, my > brain, I should say !!! I just KNEW that dingy/dindgy had to be a word!!! > I thought dingy was a small boat, and that's what my spellcheck kept > giving me as the spelling. > Okay, Richard Emlin Reed, what is the German for that word. Now not dumb > :O) but dingy. > Thanks! > Lynn ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

For those of you who may wonder what the game of Rook entails, it is very much like pinochle. I always hated pinochle, but loved Rook. It is played on the same principle, but is much easier. Of course, my parents always played double and triple deck, which is very difficult. Rook has 4 suits: red, yellow, blue, green. There are only number cards: 1 through 14, with the 1 being the 'ace'. The 5 is worth 5 points; the 10 and 14 are worth 10 points, and the 1 is worth 15 points. The 57th card has a picture of the rook (crow or raven) on it. It is always trump, is always the lowest trump, but is worth 20 points. There are 180 possible points to make in each hand. Players (usually 4 playing partners) are dealt 10 cards, with 5 cards being placed in the 'nest' in the center of the table. Each player bids (minimum 100) for the right to call trump. The object is to take as many tricks as possible, to take as many points as possible, and to 'save' the rook. If you want to learn more about Rook, this website is a good place to start: http://www.pagat.com/kt5/rook.html Mary ----- Original Message ----- From: twerppy@aol.com To: dctrk@c2i2.com ; padutch-life@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 7:40 AM Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] Words and phrases I always?had apple butter topped with cottage cheese.? It was lunch as a kid.? My grandmother always treated me to a special drink when I would visit.? Milk with vanilla in it.? Boy was it good.? She had an alterier motive also.? It would calm down an active child.? Think she dosed me with the alcohol content.? Never got sleepy.? We would play Rook and I have that as very fond memories of her.? She had 6 boys and 2 girls.? Born in the 1800's.? I now live in the house where she spent her last years.? Connie Sent: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:37 am Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] Words and phrases I looked it up on line, and yes, I agree by dictionary definition it is a spreadable cheese. I like cottage cheese mixed with just about any kind of fruit, and do get some now and then. They say it is healthy. I used to use jelly or jams in it, but since I am now low-level diabetic, I crush fresh fruits and mix with it. It is good that way also. Speaking of machines, my Uncle Teddy and Aunt Toots used to call their car a machine, don't remember ever hearing them call it a car, automobile, or 'Chevy". Don in AZ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http://mail.aol.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Dingy is one of those words whose meaning is in the eye of the beholder. My American Heritage dictionary defines it as "Darkened with smoke and grime; dirty or discolored. 2. Shabby, drab, or squalid". My Webster's New World German Dictionary defines dingy as schmuddelig. In a display of inconsistency, they define schmudd(e)lig as messy, dirty, filthy. I always equated dingy with dark, gloomy. Dingy is pronounced DIN-jy. Dinghy, pronounced DING-Y, according to American Heritage, is 1. A small open boat carried as a tender, lifeboat, or pleasure craft on a larger boat. 2. A small rowboat. 3. An inflatable rubber life raft. The German word, as per Webster, is Schlauchboot. Richard Emlin Reed Wesley Chapel, FL ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lynn Vondran" <lynnvondran@att.net> To: <padutch-life@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 10:31 AM Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] Words and phrases > Dingy!! UGH!!! I just spent about 10 minutes looking up that word in the > dictionary. I couldn't find it at all. Of course, I wasn't looking for > the word, just the spelling. There is a difference. When looking for the > spelling, you aren't concentrating on any words that you see. I just > couldn't figure out WHY I couldn't find it!!! That is until I was going > to email the list for the spelling, and went to look at the title of > dictionary I was using to tell you all that I couldn't find it in.....are > you ready for this? > I had the wrong RED dictionary. Here I spent all that time looking in my > Spanish dictionary!!! My brother-in-law must have switched them, when he > was using my computer :o) LOL, the way the brain works at times_well, my > brain, I should say !!! I just KNEW that dingy/dindgy had to be a word!!! > I thought dingy was a small boat, and that's what my spellcheck kept > giving me as the spelling. > Okay, Richard Emlin Reed, what is the German for that word. Now not dumb > :O) but dingy. > Thanks! > Lynn

Hi Lynn, REO Speedwagon sang "I can't fight this feelin", and info can be found at www.speedwagon.com. I thought I had the album but can't find so it must be 8-track and they are packed away. I looked for Rockford, IN and found two. One is Wells Co. and is south of Ft. Wayne on I-69 and the other is in Jackson Co. and south of Indianapolis on I-65. REO Speedway is referred to as a Kart Track. You would not believe how many people say REO SpeedWAY when they are talking about the band, SpeedWAGON. I thought I had vaguely remembered REO Speedway being announced on the radio from when I lived in Highland, IN, but they are so far apart I must have been thinking of something else. That was 30 yrs ago too. tracy ____________________________________________________________________________________Ready for the edge of your seat? Check out tonight's top picks on Yahoo! TV. http://tv.yahoo.com/

Hi Gang, I thought I would post that story again about my ventures along the Tully, in Glenside, for all the new Berks County folks on the list. This is part of my over 600 page book I'm writing for my daughter to enjoy when I am no longer here to tell the stories of my life. This was something I had wished Mom would have done for me. Enjoy :o) Lynn THE OLD SHACK ALONG THE TULPEHOCKEN CREEK/UNION CANAL A childhood friend, and I had a situation of innocent breaking and entering. We, almost daily, would walk along the Tully, in Glenside leading to Greenfields and the Reading Airport, near Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania. This was before the bike trail was blazed, when it was an old, I imagine, "Indian" toe-path. A little ways along the path, we had to climb over a HUGE pile of rocks, that formed a wall that wasn't quite as tall as we were. There were said to be all sorts of snakes and other varmints living in and under these rocks. We were brave kids_or maybe just dumb <grin> Along the way, we saw a very old, run-down shanty/hut? There were weeds and all sorts of things growing up around it (I especially remember the itch-weed, which was very abundant along the narrow path), yet there was still a slightly visible pathway, to this shanty/hut. We approached the rundown shack, and looked in the windows. It definitely looked like an abandoned, back-hills kind of place.really hillbilly looking; and it sat alone in those woods_no other buildings were near the place. We were certain that no one could presently be living there, and hadn't been for a long, long time, though the old table and chairs, in the kitchen, looked as though they were used recently, by their placement. My friend and I talked it over, and being use to seeing old dilapidated structures along the Tully, which were all VERY obviously unoccupied, decided to enter the shanty/hut by the door to the big room, which actually was the only door to the place, as far as we could see. This room was a combined kitchen/eating area/living room. Looking around the place gave us the creeps, at 12 years old, and a feeling that we really SHOULDN'T have ventured in, but that didn't stop us. I really had this weird feeling that, just MAYbe, someone still lived there; but, we convinced one another that, NO, no one lived like that, anymore, around those parts, so we kept up our adventure. We found very old, farming/rustic looking stuff...old boots, buckets, harnesses, tin cups, and something that I know went around a horse's neck for when it pulled something very heavy...not a yoke, maybe a special type of harness? It was a somewhat heavy, oval. leather thing. We found, OLD lanterns hanging from a wooden beam in the center of the all-in-one sitting room/kitchen. In short, it was a whole lot of old, rusty, dusty stuff, which looked as though it hadn't been touched for a VERY long time, seeing all the heavy cobwebs all over them. These heavy cobwebs were another hint to us that no one lived there, or even used the place. So we felt safe, and didn't feel anything wrong about our adventure. The shack had no second floor, or even a loft...but, it did have one other room. When we were headed for the other room, we came across a door in the floor. Opening it, we found a ladder (steps?) leading down to a very dingy cellar; the ladder definitely being one made by hand. The only light that we had was the daylight, which was peeking through from the cellar door being lifted. We ventured down the ladder/steps, and halfway down, we could somewhat see more of the same kind of stuff hanging around, and there were also wooden bins almost completely lining the base of the walls. The walls and floor were just dirt. We had second thoughts about completing our descent, because we knew, from finding snakes in the pile of rocks along the trail, that they liked dark, damp places. Just as we decided not to go down any farther, much to our horror, we had no choice which way to go!!!! Whoever was using the place came home. We scrambled the rest of the way down, almost falling over one another. We made it to a cobwebbed corner, and huddled there. We could hear them walking overhead; and we could hear them talking. It was a man and a woman. Then it happened, total darkness...right before which, the man said, "Oh, we left the cellar door open. I'll close it." My thoughts were the fear of the dark, and the unknown; and, yet, for some reason, this made us feel safe. We whispered to one another of how much trouble we would be in if someone found we had entered their "house", and we started immediately to plan our escape...the only problem was when. How long were we going to have to stay down there!!! We knew the ONLY way to get out was the way we got into the shack !! We were so glad that it was very early in the morning, because we definitely didn't want to be walking the trail home in the dark. It was VERY spooky along the trail even in the full light of day. We figured, with it just being early morning, it would give these people time to leave for a while, because there was absolutely NOTHING there that they could do, and they had to eat. But, what if they brought food back with them? Plus, we didn't know what was in that other room, it could have been kept nicely, for all we knew. Well, we were thankful anyway, because we had a lot of time before nightfall, to get out of there. We heard the scrapping of the chairs at the kitchen table, and clattering of things...running of water...sort of an old pump sound...at least it sounded like the old water-pump at my friend's grandmother's house, which was also along the Tully, but about a mile and a half down stream, next to the old paper mill, where her dad worked, right at the point where the Tully meets the Schuylkill River. We don't know how long we were down there, but it sure did feel like forever!!!!! We sat there for quite a while, until it sounded as though they left. We had no light, and were really hoping to find the ladder again. It was exciting, scary, and funny at the same time; but we had to control our emotions, and be VERY quiet. We made sure we kept hold of one another, as we crawled across the floor. Remember, there was absolutely no light!! It was pitch black down there. We found the ladder, and when we got to the top of it, we slowly opened the overhead trap-door eveeeer..soooo..slowly and slightly, and peeked around. No one was there, THANK GOD, but it looked as though, whoever was there was coming back, and soon, because they left the door to the shack hanging open. We quickly got out of that cellar, and without shutting the cellar door, we ran out of the place and up the path. We didn't look around us nor did we look back, but ran straight to the trail. When we got there, we gave the biggest sighs of relief, and headed home, talking about our adventure all the way, and tearfully, very nervously laughing about it. We never told my mom, and my friend never told her family, what we did...at least I don't think she told hers. It definitely was a day of adventure I will never forget. Thinking back on it, I bet those people wondered how that cellar door opened up again_they are probably still telling ghost stories about it, to this day <grin> LOL !!!!! Did it stop our Tom-boyish ways? NOPE, not a chance. We had many weird things happen in a day's time, and many of them had to do with our favorite place...the Tully.aka Tulpehocken Creek.along which ran a part of the old, well-known Union Canal. Lynn Arlene (Andrich) Vondran

Dingy!! UGH!!! I just spent about 10 minutes looking up that word in the dictionary. I couldn't find it at all. Of course, I wasn't looking for the word, just the spelling. There is a difference. When looking for the spelling, you aren't concentrating on any words that you see. I just couldn't figure out WHY I couldn't find it!!! That is until I was going to email the list for the spelling, and went to look at the title of dictionary I was using to tell you all that I couldn't find it in.....are you ready for this? I had the wrong RED dictionary. Here I spent all that time looking in my Spanish dictionary!!! My brother-in-law must have switched them, when he was using my computer :o) LOL, the way the brain works at times_well, my brain, I should say !!! I just KNEW that dingy/dindgy had to be a word!!! I thought dingy was a small boat, and that's what my spellcheck kept giving me as the spelling. Okay, Richard Emlin Reed, what is the German for that word. Now not dumb :O) but dingy. Thanks! Lynn

No, Sally, not to my knowledge, Thanks for asking. Richard Emlin Reed Wesley Chapel, FL ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russ and Sally" <scott1@embarqmail.com> To: <padutch-life@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 9:39 PM Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] What For > Hi Richard: Growing up in Andover New Jersey just outside of Newton, I > had > a grilfriend named Brenda Reed, We lost contact years ago, She would be > about 59 years old now. It is a long shot but any relation? Sally

Gummy Bears sure do taste better! Believe it or not, the first time I tasted them was in Germany. Don in AZ

What makes it curdy or not so curdy? Anyone know the process from personal, homemade, experience? :o) Lynn Joan wrote: I dunno but I always thought Schmearcase was the small curd cottage cheese because it is creamier and more spreadable (to go back to its meaning). The large curd cottage cheese I wouldn't consider to be exactly the same. I don't think low fat cottage would fit the description either. <g> It has got to be creamy.

In a message dated 8/29/2007 8:24:20 AM Eastern Standard Time, lynnvondran@att.net writes: I wonder if Schmearcase isn't a cross between Cottage Cheese and Cream Cheese. I dunno but I always thought Schmearcase was the small curd cottage cheese because it is creamier and more spreadable (to go back to its meaning). The large curd cottage cheese I wouldn't consider to be exactly the same. I don't think low fat cottage would fit the description either. <g> It has got to be creamy. Joan ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour

Yes, that is very good, isn't it!!! I learned that from "Grammom" Rothenberger's daughter-in-law, when she was on a diet in the 1960s. She did the fruit and cottage cheese on dry toast every morning. This was from a modern day, at the time, diet. But, if we, as a society, wouldn't forget what our grandmothers did, said, and made over the generations, these companies would make so much money from "DISCOVERING" something new. As the saying goes, there is "nothing new under the sun" :o) See, our grandmothers knew what was good for us. Then these new diets that are out, just copied what Granmas already did, but what was temporarily forgotten over the years. :o) Lynn PS I learned the Vanilla thing in milk from watching Mom make homemade egg nog when I was little. We didn't always have eggs, so I would put vanilla and sugar in milk. I still drink sort of that kind of drink almost daily. I have a cup of milk with one of the Coffee-Mate liquid creamers in it. I love it with the Coconut Creme, Egg Nog, French Vanilla or Vanilla Cai Spice. Boy is that good with one of those. I've tried the others, and YUK, but those four are good!!!!! I have my Aunt Becky drinking more milk by doing that, too :o) Connie wrote: I always?had apple butter topped with cottage cheese.? It was lunch as a kid.? My grandmother always treated me to a special drink when I would visit.? Milk with vanilla in it.? Boy was it good.? She had an alterier motive also.? It would calm down an active child.? Think she dosed me with the alcohol content.? Never got sleepy.? We would play Rook and I have that as very fond memories of her.? She had 6 boys and 2 girls.? Born in the 1800's.? I now live in the house where she spent her last years.? Connie

Thanks, Karen!!! Yes, that is it. They have more of the PA Archives online now. Can't wait to go there to see what it is all about. Thanks for finding it for me. I looked everywhere at WGAL and couldn't find it. I'll have to check out the route you took to get there. Thanks again! :o) Lynn Karen found it for me !!!!: Lynn, I believe the link you are seeking is http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt?open=512&mode=2&objID=1426 I went to www.WGAL.com and clicked on Hot Links in the left sidebar. On the Hot Links Page was a clickable link to LINK: Pa. Historical And Museum , which takes you to the above referred page.

I wonder if Schmearcase isn't a cross between Cottage Cheese and Cream Cheese. It surely does sound like it, and I smear cream cheese on buttered toast, with a little salt and pepper...Mmmmmmmmmmmm. Cottage Cheese is good that way, too. A little will do the trick with the butter, or margarine, but I probably overdo it with the Cream Cheese, and Cottage Cheese when I eat this. I haven't had a piece of that in ages though. It's like eating a piece of buttered toast with peanut butter on it....yummers!!!! Or buttered toast with dark mustard and Lebanon Bologna on it!!!! Now I'm hungry for all of them, and am on a salad kick. Oh, I'm trying that Moist & Crispy Chicken I asked if anyone tried the other day. I'll let everyone know how it comes out. It's that recipe that my Aunt Becky found in the Reading Times. I will probably also try baking that loaf of bread with the self-rising flour today. :o) Lynn PS Name some tunes from REO Speedwagon, all you Speedwagon lovers out there. I know I've heard of the group, too, and probably know all their songs, but can't think of one. ----- Original Message ----- From: Don Churchfield To: padutch-life@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 12:37 AM Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] Words and phrases I looked it up on line, and yes, I agree by dictionary definition it is a spreadable cheese. I like cottage cheese mixed with just about any kind of fruit, and do get some now and then. They say it is healthy. I used to use jelly or jams in it, but since I am now low-level diabetic, I crush fresh fruits and mix with it. It is good that way also. Speaking of machines, my Uncle Teddy and Aunt Toots used to call their car a machine, don't remember ever hearing them call it a car, automobile, or 'Chevy". Don in AZ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I always?had apple butter topped with cottage cheese.? It was lunch as a kid.? My grandmother always treated me to a special drink when I would visit.? Milk with vanilla in it.? Boy was it good.? She had an alterier motive also.? It would calm down an active child.? Think she dosed me with the alcohol content.? Never got sleepy.? We would play Rook and I have that as very fond memories of her.? She had 6 boys and 2 girls.? Born in the 1800's.? I now live in the house where she spent her last years.? Connie Sent: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:37 am Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] Words and phrases I looked it up on line, and yes, I agree by dictionary definition it is a spreadable cheese. I like cottage cheese mixed with just about any kind of fruit, and do get some now and then. They say it is healthy. I used to use jelly or jams in it, but since I am now low-level diabetic, I crush fresh fruits and mix with it. It is good that way also. Speaking of machines, my Uncle Teddy and Aunt Toots used to call their car a machine, don't remember ever hearing them call it a car, automobile, or 'Chevy". Don in AZ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http://mail.aol.com

Lynn, I believe the link you are seeking is http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt?open=512&mode=2&objID=1426 I went to www.WGAL.com and clicked on Hot Links in the left sidebar. On the Hot Links Page was a clickable link to LINK: Pa. Historical And Museum , which takes you to the above referred page. ~Karen in Berks ---------------------------------------------- Lynn wrote: I was watching WGAL news, in Lancaster County. Did anyone catch the site they announced, where you can do Pennsylvania family research? They said something about you can look up Land owners from 190something to 1975? I didn't catch the whole report. This is all that I think I overheard them saying. Was out in the kitchen at the time. They said you can access the site from www.WGAL.com, but I can't find it anywhere there. Thanks for any help in getting this Pennsylvania research site.

REO is part of the group, REO Speedwagon isn't it?! One of my favorite groups. Grinning, Cathy > [Original Message] > From: Richard Emlin Reed <remlinr@tampabay.rr.com> > To: <padutch-life@rootsweb.com> > Date: 8/28/2007 10:57:44 PM > Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] tuesday PM memo > > Yes, REO was the monogram of Ransom Eli Olds, founder of the Olds Motor > Vehicle Company. I once owned a 1930 Reo Flying Cloud sedan. It had quarter > inch steel fenders. New, it cost $1800. That's $22,000 in today's money. I > bought it for $165 in 1937. > The Reo Speedway was a truck. It may have been other things too; but there > was a Reo Speedway truck. > Richard Emlin Reed > Wesley Chapel, FL > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Keiper" <jdkjak@webtv.net> > To: <PADUTCH-LIFE@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 5:19 PM > Subject: [PD-LIFE] tuesday PM memo > > as a child, when visiting my pa dutch grand parents in manheim, pa, on a > > sunday morning i recall my grandmother > > saying to grandfather "now dad, it's time to go fetch the machine from > > the shed"... and off to the meeting house we would go...and it was a REO > > machine. > > > > John & Joyce Keiper > >>From the "situation room", Bedford, Penna. 15522 > > at: coventry cottage > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Yes, REO was the monogram of Ransom Eli Olds, founder of the Olds Motor Vehicle Company. I once owned a 1930 Reo Flying Cloud sedan. It had quarter inch steel fenders. New, it cost $1800. That's $22,000 in today's money. I bought it for $165 in 1937. The Reo Speedway was a truck. It may have been other things too; but there was a Reo Speedway truck. Richard Emlin Reed Wesley Chapel, FL ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Keiper" <jdkjak@webtv.net> To: <PADUTCH-LIFE@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 5:19 PM Subject: [PD-LIFE] tuesday PM memo > as a child, when visiting my pa dutch grand parents in manheim, pa, on a > sunday morning i recall my grandmother > saying to grandfather "now dad, it's time to go fetch the machine from > the shed"... and off to the meeting house we would go...and it was a REO > machine. > > John & Joyce Keiper >>From the "situation room", Bedford, Penna. 15522 > at: coventry cottage

Schmierkase, literally translated, means spread cheese, or cheese that is soft enough to spread. Cottage cheese, by its very texture, is not spreadable. Cottage cheese is made from curdled milk. My wife eats the curds with applebutter. I can't stand the stuff. I remember Schmierkase as a viscuous, cloudy, glue-like mess that didn't look fit to eat. I'll admit my memory is hazy on the substance; since I didn't have a liking for it. One recipe I read sounds as though schmierkase is nothing but cottage cheese with the curds dissolved. The PADutch-Life Archives contain a post dated 21 Jun 1999 which also hints that schmierkase and cottage cheese are identical. I wish I could enter my memory darkroom and develop a picture of my memory of schmierkase. I seem to remember that it was eaten with molasses, on bread. The German word for rubber is Gummi; the word for rubber band is gummiband. In PA-D, it became gumband. Rubbers, the kind we used to pull over our shoes when it rained, were called gumshoe, singular and plural. Richard Emlin Reed Wesley Chapel, FL ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Churchfield" <dctrk@c2i2.com> To: <padutch-life@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 3:36 PM Subject: [PD-LIFE] Words and phrases >I can remember when I was a kid churning our own butter from milk > straight from the cow, and Mom taking the leftover juice and making > buttermilk and "smearcase" I didn't realize until I looked it up that > smearcase was PA Dutch. We had some cottage cheese at the church last > Friday for our food distribution, and when I called it smearcase, > everybody > looked rather strange at me, and didn't seem to understand what I was > talking about. > > Now and then I call rubber bands "gum bands", and didn't realize that > seems > to be unique to PA as well. > > Don in AZ

Thanks for the help.? I could pronounce just not spell.? Never could do that chore very well.? Connie -----Original Message----- From: Richard Emlin Reed <remlinr@tampabay.rr.com> To: padutch-life@rootsweb.com Sent: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 9:27 pm Subject: [PD-LIFE] What For Well, five(seven?) responses! Things appear to be improving. Lynn, "What for kind of"? Is that a redundancy? In PA-Dutch, that would be "wos fah e'n ort foon". I can't say I remember that. }:-) Machine was, probably, also used for farm machinery. Not having lived on a farm, I couldn't say with certainty. But, we called a truck a truck. In PA-Dutch, it was a "drug". Judy, According to my talking American Heritage dictionary, vehicle is pronounced "VE-i-kel". I would hazard a guess that this results from slurring the word. It's a lot easier to pass over the H than to aspirate it. The same thing happens when uttering the expression "an 'istoric occasion". The ultimate slur would be to pronounce it "VE-kel". My "Dutch accent" having made me the object of ridicule for much of my life, I have no comment on PO-lice. The original station wagons had wooden bodies, later superseded by simulated wooden bodies. I shouldn't think that today's vans or mini-vans would be called station wagons. Any self-propelled vehicle could properly be called an automobile, i.e. self-propelled. I forgot to mention that they were also called autos. I was fortunate to know many people who called them "machines"; but, then, I am in my nineties. "Woodies" was a nickname for station wagons with wooden bodies. Was it a piece of work for which people would have died a thousand deaths; I don't know. Connie, In PA-Dutch, we said "vas is des"; in German, it was "was ist das". "What is this?" In German, "wee feel" was "wie viel". How much/many. Sally, Yes, pocketbook was a common name for both change purse and wallet. In PA-Dutch, we called it "e'n "pockabooch". Isn;t it too bad that we have "outened the light" on the PA-Dutch dialect. Karen, While I was growing up in the early 1920s, there were more horse and buggy vehicles than machines on the streets. The ratio gradually changed. Richard Emlin Reed Wesley Chapel, FL ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http://mail.aol.com