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Pennsylvania Dutch

Note 56 — Chapter VII · Comparisons with other Dialects.

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F. E. Petri (Handbuch der Fremdwörter, 1845) explains Spargimént or Spargemént as "ein ausgestreutes Gerücht, Ausgesprenge, Geträtsch oder Gerede; Aussprengsel," in short, gossip or idle talk, evidently from Latin spargere.—A. J. Ellis.

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