Figure 2. Fork calipers perform two tasks at once. They measure the thickness of the fork arm. shank (Fig. 1) and then automatically. indicate what a 10% wear factor would be when the. calipers are applied to the blade cross section (Fig. 2). 50mm/2.
Historically they have spoken the dialect of German known as Pennsylvania German or Pennsylvania Dutch. In this context, the word Dutch does not refer to the Dutch people or their descendants, but to Deutsch (German).ennsylvania Dutch is most likely a corruption of the endonym Deitsch, which is a local variant of the modern German endonym Deutsch, meaning German.
One usageâthe more common among linguists ârefers to a variety of a language that is a characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers. The term is applied most often to regional speech patterns, but a dialect may also be defined by other factors, such as social class.he terms language and dialect are not necessarily mutually exclusive: There is nothing contradictory in the statement the language of the Pennsylvania Dutch is a dialect of German .