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This particular "dutch reach" idiom is not related to the Pennsylvania Dutch in any way.



None of the "Dutch" idioms will be from Pennsylvania Dutch, they all come from being the neighbour country to England.


Pennsylvanian "Dutch" is a corruption of "Deutsche", and the community German is it not? As I understood it many of American "Dutch" idioms were originally meant to be referencing German.

You do get cookie from Dutch though. Cookie comes from the Dutch keokje.


koekje :)


Ireland?




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