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De Lissel ehr Erlebnisse im Wunnerland: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in Palatine German
De Lissel ehr Erlebnisse im Wunnerland: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in Palatine German
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Lewis Carroll is a pen-name: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was the author's real name and he was lecturer in Mathematics in Christ Church, Oxford. Dodgson began the story on 4 July 1862, when he took a journey in a rowing boat on the river Thames in Oxford together with the Reverend Robinson Duckworth, with Alice Liddell (ten years of age) the daughter of the Dean of Christ Church, and with her two sisters, Lorina (thirteen years of age), and Edith (eight years of age). As is clear from the poem at the beginning of the book, the three girls asked Dodgson for a story and reluctantly at first he began to tell the first version of the story to them. There are many half-hidden references made to the five of them throughout the text of the book itself, which was published finally in 1865. Palatine German is a West Franconian dialect of German, spoken in the Rhine Valley, roughly in an area between the cities of Zweibrücken, Kaiserslautern, Ludwigshafen, Mannheim, Heidelberg, Speyer, Wörth am Rhein, at the border to the Alsace region in France, but also beyond. Germans who immigrated to North America from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries chose to maintain their native language Pennsylvania Dutch, which is descended primarily from the Palatine German dialects. The language used in "De Lissel ehr Erlebnisse im Wunnerland" is the dialectal variant of Palatine German called "Vorderpfälzisch". Strictly speaking, it is the variety spoken in the translator's native village Waldsee, a community of some 5,000 inhabitants which lies between Ludwigshafen in the north and Speyer in the south.
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