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Date Posted: 12:53:55 08/27/03 Wed
Author: Marlies
Subject: Re: Ummm alright
In reply to: Nigel 's message, "Ummm alright" on 02:27:50 08/03/03 Sun

>I dont see where I have any of the above on this site.
>
>More importantly, whats with the Van Der Bilj email
>ads on this forum? I could swear that there are other
>similarly Netherlands-intensive ads too. Maybe they
>have some kind of innovative system whereby they note
>the IP of people who post here, and then serve up ads
>accordingly. So since that van Randwijk person posted
>here recently, the program assumed that this is a
>Dutch-intensive board and started putting the Holland
>ads up.
>
>While on the subject of Holland, why are there so many
>names for that country? This is a common brain
>teaser, but Ive never really searched for the answer.
>You have Holland, the Netherlands, and for some reason
>the people are Dutch. The natives probably call it
>something else entirely, and whats the deal with
>Germans calling their country Deutchland or something
>similar? Thats another "Dutch"-like word. This isnt
>to suggest that the Germans are calling themselves
>Dutch, quite the opposite. "Dutch" must be some
>variant of a German word for themselves. Germany is
>"Aleman" in Spanish and that seems out of left field
>too. Such mysteries.

Well maybe I should come more often here, more lovely Dutch will spoil this site even more.....

Dutch, German and English are all German languages, that word German comes from the German empire 2000 years ago.

Netherlands means the same as Holland, it both means low land, because there are no mountains.

When you speak of the Netherlands you mean the whole country. Holland is a part in the west, in the 19th century the Netherlands was a republic and there was a state called Holland. Now you have 2 provinces Noord-Holland and Zuid- Holland. But that's technically or offically speaking. It doesnt matter if you say youre from Holland or The Netherlands.

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Re: Ummm alright -- Marlies, 18:42:39 08/27/03 Wed
- Re: Ummm alright -- Nigel, 06:26:08 08/30/03 Sat