"no foolin, dey over der now." "Dey brung some of dem apples over heera da day before." "Oh, dey vere some good eatin I bet." "Now look, you make no nevermind, dose vere da best apples I ever did have, dey vas some good." "Oh, here dey come now, dey bedda know da wash der feet off." The "t" at the end of words is usually silent: "get" becomes "ge." Syntax The few syntactical characteristics that are following are now very rare or have slowly stopped being used. One example is the splitting of a verb, which is very common in German and used in Lunenburg as well. German: mitgehen ('to go with someone') Examples: Will you go with? I am going with. Come on with! German: Abwaschen ('to wash off') Example: Wash your face off! Thus, use, once, and with can be found at the end of a sentence. Vocabulary Much vocabulary is from German stock, but a few extraordinary New England features are also rare or not used in the rest of southwestern Nova Scotia. get awake instead of wake up all in the sense of all gone (as in German); for example: My money is all from German "to eat greedily" raised doughnuts have the name which comes from the German word Fastnacht : slices of dried apple, (singular) derives from the German word means insipid and derives from the German See also Canadian English Atlantic Canadian English Pennsylvania German language Rhoticity in English References Bibliography Canadian English Culture of Nova Scotia Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia