april 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