[AT] Some ads from the 12/3 Lancaster Farming

[Mike Sloane]

Dean VP wrote:
> Dudley:
> 
> They speak funny back East. Sometimes spreader and splitter sound the same.
> :-) 
When reading the ads in Lancaster Farming, you need to remember a couple 
of things about the area where the ads come from: many of the farmers 
are 7th generation Amish of one variation or another and this means that 
many of them speak a kind of English that is a mix of 18th century 
German and English. In addition, the Amish traditionally sent their 
children to school only through the primary grades (some of that has 
changed in recent years), so what you see in the ads is their best 
approximation of how they speak in their daily activities and written as 
best they can figure out. Finally, if the handwritten submissions to the 
paper are not clear, busy key entry clerks have to make their best quick 
guess as to what the subscriber was trying to convey. And yes, sometimes 
it is pretty funny to read, but I make no attempt to correct the 
spelling when I compose my message, unless it is pretty obvious.

Mike
> 
> Dean A. Van Peursem
> Snohomish, WA 98290
> 

> Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 11:32 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: RE: [AT] Some ads from the 12/3 Lancaster Farming
> 
>  8N wheel, fertilizer splitter, Cub A-V cultivators, drawbars, middle
> buster, hillers, Planet Jr. push cultivator, rotary shanks, "M" gas
> tank, 10' disk, pulleys. Salem Co. 856-358-8625.
>        
>  ... fertilizer splitter ...  ????
> Dudley
> Snohomish, Washington
> 

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