Proverbs of the Pennsylvania Germans (Metalmark). Cet article n’est pas disponible.Proverbs of the Pennsylvania Germans (Metalmark)

Proverbs of the Pennsylvania Germans is a follow-up and companion volume to Edwin Miller Fogel&;s 1915 publication Beliefs and Superstitions of the Pennsylvania Germans. This volume focuses on the proverb in its broadest sense, including adages, aphorisms, and some appropriate idiomatic expressions. This &;spontaneous expression of experience,&; so widely used in the Germanic linguistic tradition, is in Fogel&;s words &;the very bone and sinew of the [Pennsylvania German] dialect.&;

This collection is the result of the author&;s years of field research in Pennsylvania and comprises over two thousand proverbs dealing with all facets of folklife. Each entry is accompanied by an English translation and often, where applicable, a High German translation. Citations also note instances in which a parallel proverb had been documented in either a British or High German collection. The proverbs are arranged alphabetically by keyword, in the conventional style for a collection such as this one.

Nearly one hundred proverbs deemed &;vulgar,&; which were originally published separately with only High German translations, have been reproduced as an appendix in this Metalmark edition.

Edwin Miller Fogel (1874&;1949) was a scholar of German language and its Pennsylvania dialects.