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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 346154, member: 2844&quot;]I just looked it up in the German wikipedia. The official German name for the bird in the photo I posted is &#039;Stieglitz&#039;. The word is originally Polish, but the bird is called Distelfink in some dialects. They don&#039;t say which.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie19" alt=":banghead:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Maybe those close to the Dutch or Belgian border? The english name is goldfinch.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Pennsylvania Dutch (as you said, Deutsch) are generally Mennonites. Mennonism originated in Friesland, the Netherlands, but people from different parts of Europe went to Friesland to join.</p><p>The Frisians pronounce a v like an f. The word distelfink could be Dutch or German.</p><p><br /></p><p>To add to the confusion, the Amish are a Mennonite subgroup, a branch of Swiss Zwingliism, which originated in Alsace. Palatine is a southwest German dialect, and Alsatian is one of the Palatine dialects.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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