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	Both Iowa and Pennsylvania belong to the "American Midland"
dialect group, which also includes most of the Midwest, and in fact
most of the West. The culture of this area was established by the
Quakers in the late seventeenth centuries, many of whom came from the
English North Midlands. Since then, Pennsylvania has functioned as a
"funnel" of sorts of settlers to the old Northwest territory,
Plains, Rockies and California. Although few of these came from the
North Midlands, they assimilated many linguistic features of the
communities they joined.
	While the seventeenth-century North Midland dialect forms the
foundation of the modern American Midland speech, it has of course
evolved and brought in forms from the languages and dialects whose
speakers and speakers' children adopted it. Whether the  construction
you refer to comes from Amish German or any of the others I don't
know, however.
	Since becoming the dominent dialect in the United States,
American Midland has begun to splinter somewhat. Various cities,
especially Philadelphia, the original home of this dialect, have
developed their own idiosyncracies and innovations. This is a probable
explanation of the fact that this form is not reported in
Philadelphia.
	If you are interested in  this topic, the book _Albion's Seed:
Four British Folkways in North America_ by David Hackett Fisher
(1989, Oxford University Press), is a fascinating account. This is the
first volume in the planned series _America, A Cultural History,_ and
takes an in-depth (900+ pages) look at the major English-speaking cultures that
colonized North America before the Revolutionary War. Fisher devotes a
Part to each of the four main groups he has identified, and within
this there are short chapters with titles like "the Elite," "Marriage
Ways," "Wisdom Ways" and "Origins." Much of the information presented
here is taken from the "Language Ways" chapter, which draws on many
sources.

					-Angus Grieve-Smith
					ba07479@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu