T HE majority of the early German settlers in Pennsylvania came from the Palatinate. The rest of them came chiefly from Switzerland, Wiirttemberg, Hesse, Alsace, Saxony, and Silesia.2 It is, of course, to be assumed that these German immigrants spoke the German dialects peculiar to the sections from which they came. However, in the course of a few generations there developed from these several German dialects a new German dialect, in which, as I have shown elsewhere,3 these several dialects were blended, but in which the speech of the Palatinate, especially that of the eastern half of the Palatinate, predominated. This new dialect, called 'Pennsylvania Dutch' or 'Pennsylvania German,' has a number of Alemannic characteristics, but most of these are also in the dialects of the Southeastern Palatinate. In the Pennsylvania German territory settled largely by the Swiss, i.e. in Lancaster, York, and other southern counties, we find a few significant Alemannic peculiarities which are not found in other Pennsylvania German territories, yet, on the whole, the dialectical variations in the dialect as spoken in the various sections of Pennsylvania are very slight. The resemblance of Pennsylvania German to the dialects of the eastern Palatinate was remarked by Cyrus H. Eshlemann in his article entitled 'The Origin of the Pennsylvania German Dialect,' published in the 'Pennsylfawnisch Deitsch Eck' of The Allentown Morning Call, November