Pennsylvania Dutch

The Pennsylvania Dutch (more correctly Pennsylvania German) are a people of
various religious affiliations, living mostly in eastern Pennsylvania, with
cultural traditions dating back to the German immigrations to America in the
17th and 18th centuries.

Despite the name, the people are not from the Netherlands, but rather are
from various parts of southwest Germany, Alsace and Switzerland.
Pennsylvania Germans spoke a language known as Pennsylvania German, and some
continue to speak it to this day. The word "Dutch" here is left over from an
archaic sense of the English word, which once referred to Germany as well as
to the Netherlands. This archaism may have survived for various reasons; for
example, the Pennsylvania German word for "German" is "Deitsch", which
sounds similar to the English "Dutch".

The German word for "German" (itself) is "deutsch" (it sounds similar to
"dutch", too).

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