A bit about Pälzisch Dialekt

I semi-jokingly say that that Alsace deserves to be called Südpfalz since the cultural border there is not clear unlike the country borders. And I mentioned back in the day that a lot of places in central Rheinland-Pfalz (or Rheinland-Palatinate if you don’t recognise its proper name) sound even more French than those close to the border (no matter from which side—e.g. both have river Lauter and a town named after it, be it Lauterbourg or Lauterecken; and Hœrdt is on comparable distance from the border as Hördt). But recently I’ve seen something that made me even more suspicious about the influences. There’s a small town not far from Mainz called Gau-Algesheim and it has rather peculiar variation of the local dialect. Here are two examples of it: This is a bench installed in the town centre in the memory of one of its distinguished citizens. The words on that bench are “Weck, Worscht & Woi” which I believe map to the common German “Werk, Wurst & Wein” (or “work, sausage and wine” auf…