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A Further Note on the Dialect of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

M. B. Emeneau
M. B. Emeneau*
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University of California
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In LANG. 11.140-7 some notes were presented on the English dialect of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. On pp. 146-7 there was given a handful of words still in more or less general use which are survivals of the original German speech of the inhabitants of this town. Recently another interesting word which still preserves great vitality has returned to my memory.

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Miscellanea
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Language , Volume 16 , Issue 3: July-September , September 1940, pp. 214 - 215
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Copyright © 1940 Linguistic Society of America

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References

1 O. A. Erich and R. Beitel, Wörterbuch der deutschen Volkskunde (Leipzig, 1936), s.v. Nikolaus, and the references there given, especially K. Meisen, Nikolauskult und Nikolausbrauch im Abendlande (Düsseldorf, 1931) 36, 470. The linguistic form is found in E. Hoffmann-Krayer and H. Bächtold-Stäubli, Handwörterbuch des deutschen Aberglaubens, vol. 6, col. 1092, s.v. Nikolaus. It is quoted there from Albert Becker, Pfälzer Volkskunde 286, and W. Diener, Hunsrücker Volkskunde 220, neither of which is available to me. For bibliographical aid I must record my thanks to Professor Hans Kurath. He tells me that the word and the custom are current among the Palatine settlers in the Pennsylvania German area. For a description of the custom see H. Harbaugh's poem 'Der Belsnickel', Harbaugh's Harfe (Gedichte in Pennsylvanisch-Deutscher Mundart, ed. by B. Bausman; Philadelphia, 1870) 23-4.

2 Lang. 11.140.