April 2007 (UTC)

It "means" German only because some Americans at some point misunderstood it and thought "Deitsch" sounded like "Dutch". The paragraph suggesting that "Dutch" used to mean what "German" means today is ridiculous. Claiming that the inhabitants of the Netherlands saw themselves as merely another German state in the Holy Roman Empire is even more riduculous. So yes, it does make sense to emphazise that Pennsylvania Dutch is a misinterpretation and that the immigrants were in fact German. Having said that, if the Pennsylvania Dutch refer to themselves and their language as such, that should be the title of the aticle.  15:56, 27