Vocabulary
Lots of vocabulary is from German stock, however, there are also extraordinary New England features that are rare or not used in the rest of southwest Nova Scotia.
- Make in the sense of to prepare (a meal) → make breafast (in German one 'macht' (makes) breakfast)
- get awake instead of wake up
- all in the sense of all gone (like in German) --> example: My money is all.
- → 'fressen' is German for eating greedily
- raised doughnuts have the name which comes from the German word 'Fastnacht'
- → slices of apple dried, (singular) derives from the German word 'Schnitte'
- means insipid and derives from the German 'läppisch'
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