In a case like the last, no matter how well the speaker knows English, he must _not_ pronounce a word like 'either' in the English mode, because it would be an offense against the natural rhetoric of the dialect. FOOTNOTES: [36] ... "Von der Schweiz an zu beiden seiten des Rheines hinab bis an Hollands gränzen, giebt es kaum einige Gegenden, wo man den Koch vom Kellner, den Herrn vom Knechte, den Hammer vom Amboſze, d.i. den Werfall (_Nominativ_) vom Wenfalle (_Accusativ_) und dem Wemfalle (_Dativ_) richtig zu unterscheiden vermöchte. Bald hört man nehmlich: "ich trinke rother Wein" bald: "ich habe der Esel gesehen" bald: "ich sitze auf der Baum." s.f."--_Dr. Joh. Gottl. Radlof_, Mustersaal aller teutschen Mundarten, ... Bonn, 1822; 2, 90. Stalder (Schweiz. Idiotikon, 1812) gives the accusatives of _der_ and _ein_ as agreeing with the nominative, and under _ein_ (1, 37) he has--Acc. wie der Nom., welches überhaupt zu bemerken ist. When I read extracts from this Treatise before the Philological Society on 3 June, 1870, Prof. Goldstücker and Dr. E. Mall, the latter an Alsatian, both considered that this presumed substitution of the nominative for the accusative or dative case must be a misapprehension. Dr. Mall declared himself totally unaware of it. Both considered that it must have resulted from the disappearance of the inflectional _-m_, _-n_ (the latter of which is the rule certainly in the Rhine region), and the degradation of the preceding _e_ vowel into [_e_]. This would account for "ich trinke rother Wein," considering _rother_ to mean 'rootǝ,' but would not account for "ich habe der Esel gesehen," in which the _r_ must be taken as trilled, unless we consider that first _den_ was made into 'dǝ,' and then the 'r' _evolved_ as in the Cockney's 'idea-r of things.' Hence the original passages on which the assertions in the text are founded, have been added.--_Alex. J. Ellis._ [37] "Dii Jarik Kaunti leit, wann sii furn rootǝ wei, schwätzǝ, saaghǝ g'weenlich--"Ich trink rootǝr wei." Wann sii awǝr kee rootǝr hen, dann trinkǝ sii weisser wann sii n kriighǝ kennǝ." _The Rev. D. Ziegler_, letter of Jan. 15, 1870 (literatim). [38] In a spelling based upon English, and not fully phonetic. See _Ellis_, Early English Pronunciation, pp. 654-661. [39] _Stalder_ (1, 46) says that the imperfects war, hatte, sagte, kam, rufte, kaufte, would be scarcely understood in Swisserland. [40] _Castelli_, Wörterbuch, Wien, 1847, p. 30. [41] Suabian condenses _da unten_ to _dunda_. The Rev. D. Ziegler suggests that this 'dass' may have arisen from a _d_, as of 'grad' (G. gerade) before 'as' of _als_, as in--ær schwätzt gra_d as_ wann [G. wenn] ær reich wær. (He speaks just as if he were rich.) [42] See _Hald_. Affixes. p. 213. [43] The present tense ('wann ich kumm') is used here for the G. subjunctive _wenn ich käme_. [44] The Rev. D. Ziegler, transliterated by himself.