The Dutch
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I'd like to know why the Dutch don't refer to themselves, as a variation of their country's name?
For instance: America/American{s}!0 -
SandSeaSkySoul wrote: »I'd like to know why the Dutch don't refer to themselves, as a variation of their country's name?
For instance: America/American{s}!
They do - "Nederlanders"2 -
SandSeaSkySoul wrote: »I'd like to know why the Dutch don't refer to themselves, as a variation of their country's name?
For instance: America/American{s}!
They do - "Nederlanders"
It doesn't include the word: "Dutch", within it!0 -
That's because they don't call themselves that...we do.SandSeaSkySoul wrote: »SandSeaSkySoul wrote: »I'd like to know why the Dutch don't refer to themselves, as a variation of their country's name?
For instance: America/American{s}!
They do - "Nederlanders"
It doesn't include the word: "Dutch", within it!
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That's because they don't call themselves that...we do.SandSeaSkySoul wrote: »SandSeaSkySoul wrote: »I'd like to know why the Dutch don't refer to themselves, as a variation of their country's name?
For instance: America/American{s}!
They do - "Nederlanders"
It doesn't include the word: "Dutch", within it!
I am ½ asleep, it didn't register that you didn't type the country but the people!
Oh okay, then why do we?1 -
No idea?!SandSeaSkySoul wrote: »
That's because they don't call themselves that...we do.SandSeaSkySoul wrote: »SandSeaSkySoul wrote: »I'd like to know why the Dutch don't refer to themselves, as a variation of their country's name?
For instance: America/American{s}!
They do - "Nederlanders"
It doesn't include the word: "Dutch", within it!
I am ½ asleep, it didn't register that you didn't type the country but the people!
Oh okay, then why do we?1 -
No idea?!SandSeaSkySoul wrote: »
That's because they don't call themselves that...we do.SandSeaSkySoul wrote: »SandSeaSkySoul wrote: »I'd like to know why the Dutch don't refer to themselves, as a variation of their country's name?
For instance: America/American{s}!
They do - "Nederlanders"
It doesn't include the word: "Dutch", within it!
I am ½ asleep, it didn't register that you didn't type the country but the people!
Oh okay, then why do we?
Okay, well thank you kindly for educating me!2 -
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SnackherBarrell wrote: »SandSeaSkySoul wrote: »
No idea?!SandSeaSkySoul wrote: »
That's because they don't call themselves that...we do.SandSeaSkySoul wrote: »SandSeaSkySoul wrote: »I'd like to know why the Dutch don't refer to themselves, as a variation of their country's name?
For instance: America/American{s}!
They do - "Nederlanders"
It doesn't include the word: "Dutch", within it!
I am ½ asleep, it didn't register that you didn't type the country but the people!
Oh okay, then why do we?
Okay, well thank you kindly for educating me!
Courtesy google...
There are three terms we need to define: Holland, the Netherlands, and Dutch. In Old English dutch simply meant “people or nation.” (This also explains why Germany is called Deutschland in German.) Over time, English-speaking people used the word Dutch to describe people from both the Netherlands and Germany. (At that point in time, in the early 1500s, the Netherlands and parts of Germany, along with Belgium and Luxembourg, were all part of the Holy Roman Empire.) Specifically the phrase “High Dutch” referred to people from the mountainous area of what is now southern Germany. “Low Dutch” referred to people from the flatlands in what is now the Netherlands. Within the Holy Roman Empire, the word “Netherlands” was used to describe people from the low-lying (nether) region (land). The term was so widely used that when they became a formal, separate country in 1815, they became the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The word “Holland” literally meant “wood-land” in Old English and originally referred to people from the northern region of the Netherlands. Over time, it came to apply to the entire country. Got all that?
Thank you, bunches!
Now I wonder if there's any correlation, between the words: "Dutch" & "Duchess"?0 -
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SnackherBarrell wrote: »SandSeaSkySoul wrote: »SnackherBarrell wrote: »SandSeaSkySoul wrote: »
No idea?!SandSeaSkySoul wrote: »
That's because they don't call themselves that...we do.SandSeaSkySoul wrote: »SandSeaSkySoul wrote: »I'd like to know why the Dutch don't refer to themselves, as a variation of their country's name?
For instance: America/American{s}!
They do - "Nederlanders"
It doesn't include the word: "Dutch", within it!
I am ½ asleep, it didn't register that you didn't type the country but the people!
Oh okay, then why do we?
Okay, well thank you kindly for educating me!
Courtesy google...
There are three terms we need to define: Holland, the Netherlands, and Dutch. In Old English dutch simply meant “people or nation.” (This also explains why Germany is called Deutschland in German.) Over time, English-speaking people used the word Dutch to describe people from both the Netherlands and Germany. (At that point in time, in the early 1500s, the Netherlands and parts of Germany, along with Belgium and Luxembourg, were all part of the Holy Roman Empire.) Specifically the phrase “High Dutch” referred to people from the mountainous area of what is now southern Germany. “Low Dutch” referred to people from the flatlands in what is now the Netherlands. Within the Holy Roman Empire, the word “Netherlands” was used to describe people from the low-lying (nether) region (land). The term was so widely used that when they became a formal, separate country in 1815, they became the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The word “Holland” literally meant “wood-land” in Old English and originally referred to people from the northern region of the Netherlands. Over time, it came to apply to the entire country. Got all that?
Thank you, bunches!
Now I wonder if there's any correlation, between the words: "Dutch" & "Duchess"?
No, duchess is just the lady version of Duke (obvi)
I did at least, already know that much!0 -
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Canadians are number one at being North of America.0
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Reagan was known as Dutch0
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"Going Dutch" (sometimes written with lower-case dutch) is a term that indicates that each person participating in a group activity pays for themself, rather than any person paying for anyone else, particularly in a restaurant bill. It is also called Dutch date, Dutch treat (the oldest form, a pejorative)[1] and doing Dutch.0 -
Dutch loaf?0
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funjen1972 wrote: »Dutch loaf?
Dutch oven? Probably not appreciated as much.0 -
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funjen1972 wrote: »Dutch loaf?
Dutch oven? Probably not appreciated as much.
I think both are disliked by most people!0 -
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No idea?!SandSeaSkySoul wrote: »
That's because they don't call themselves that...we do.SandSeaSkySoul wrote: »SandSeaSkySoul wrote: »I'd like to know why the Dutch don't refer to themselves, as a variation of their country's name?
For instance: America/American{s}!
They do - "Nederlanders"
It doesn't include the word: "Dutch", within it!
I am ½ asleep, it didn't register that you didn't type the country but the people!
Oh okay, then why do we?
When I was in St Maarten they referred to themselves as Dutch.0 -
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Will you really reduce Dutch people and the Netherlands to Gouda and Dutch oven??! What about great Dutch artists like Rembrandt, Vanmeer or Van Gogh? What about the wonderful flowers / tulips, the delft porcelain? What about "Diary of Anne Frank"? Dutch people are tolerant, cosmopolitan, honest and very nice, I like ´em all.1
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