The Pennsylvania German appreciates humor, and to avoid the humorous and often illegitimate use of English words, the first examples in these pages will be selected from the advertisements of about a dozen different newspapers, all printed in the barbarous German character, and published at distant points in Pennsylvania. In such compositions, the attention of the public is called to common objects in a vocabulary which can be accepted without hesitation, and in a style somewhat above the colloquial, in which a horse is called 'gaul' and not _pferd_ ('pfært') as usual in print. The spelling is sometimes English and sometimes more or less Germanised, without much affecting the pronunciation, as in "store" (a retail shop[30]) or "stohr" (buchstore, storehalter, stohrhaus), which are equally 'schtoor'; "frame," (främe, främ, frähm), are equally the English _frame_; "schap" (shap, schop, schopp, shop, pl. schöp); "township" (townschip, taunschip); "county" and "caunty"; "turnpike" and "turnpeik"; "cash" and "casch." In some localities, English names of streets like _King_, _Queen_, _High_, _Water_, _Chesnut Street_, are used in German speech and print, and in others, _Königstrasze_, _Quienstrasze_, _Highstrasze_, _Wasserstrasze_ and _Chesnutstrasze_, are preferred. As parenthetic words like (Dry Goods) occur in the originals, explanations will be [in brackets], and attention will be called to strictly English words by putting them in _italics_. The "Pennsylvanische Staats-Zeitung" (published at Harrisburg, the State Capital) claims a larger circulation than any English journal of that city, and the number for Nov. 25, 1869, will be quoted here in the original spelling. Here, where English introduced words might be expected throughout, certain French words are adopted from the German dictionaries, such as _reparaturen, delikatessen_, lagerbier _salon_ (also _saloon_),[31] _etablissement, engagiren, quotiren, instruiren, autorisiren, ordonnanz_. Others are rather English than French, as _pavements, arrangements, publikationspreisen, textbücher, jury, city, controle_ ( ... so wie dasz die City alleinige Controle über denselben Committee....), _connektion_, _construktion, order, governör, provisionen, groceries_. Beste Familien-Mehl, in Fässern [in another journal--Roggen_flauer per bärrel--preim flaur_] _superfine per Bärrel; Prime_ weitzen; Roggen [rye] _per Buschel_. Korn [maize or indian corn, properly called Welschkorn in the same column under the quoted Lancaster prices, where "Korn" means rye.] Hafer; _Middlings; Shorts_. In the Price-current we find-- Fische ... _Rock_ [Labrax lineatus]; _Pike_ [for Hecht, pl. Hechte, a known term]; _Halibut; Haddock; Sturgeon; Trout; White Perch_ [Labrax albus, vel mucronatus]; Weisze Fische [Coregonus albus]; Härringe; _Cat_fische [Pimelodus, more commonly called 'katsǝfisch'].