Excerpt from The Pennsylvania-German Dialect: A Study of Its Status as a Spoken Dialect and Form of Literary Expression, With Reference to Its Capabilities and Limitations, and Lines Illustrating Same That a general renaissance has been inspired along va rions lines of literary effort among the descendants of the early pennsylvania-germans is manifest on every hand. That they have awakened to their opportunity, their power and their duty, and have resolved to claim the wealth of theirliterary and historical heritage is equally apparent; stimulated everywhere by the example and the work of the pennsylvania-german Society. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.