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Message:: [QUOTE="Ghopper1924, post: 691476, member: 5170"]OK, the feet look German to me. And..... "BTW, the "Pennsylvania Dutch" thingy is kind of a myth/ marketing type dealio. The vast majority of 18th century immigrants to PA were Germans and yes, a few Dutch, Swiss, etc but mostly Germans. Naturally, an entire industry has grown up around this "Pennsylvania Dutch" myth for marketing reasons." The Dutch thing is an Occam's Razor. Germans call their country Deutschland, as we know. In the Anglicized world of 18th and 19th century Pennsylvania (and elsewhere, but especially PA), "Deutsch" was corrupted to become "Dutch." Thus the misbranding of an entire ethnic group. It's got nothing to do with Holland. Then, as now, most Americans couldn't find Holland (or Germany) on a map if they were paid to do so, much less tell the difference between the two languages. Just saying. But as James implied, it makes for good marketing and lots of tchotchkes.[/QUOTE]