Re: Word usage in group versus out of group.
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, May 23, 1999, 1:09 |
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On Thu, 20 May 1999 21:18:39 -0500 Tom Wier <artabanos@...>
writes:
>John Cowan wrote:
>> "Yankee" probably belongs to this category (Dutch "Jan Kees", John
>> Cheese).
>Just curious: are there any remnants of "Dutchness" in New York City
>at all? I read that even in the early 1800s there were enough people
>speaking
>it that the city records were still kept in both English and Dutch.
>And,
>I think President Martin Van Buren's native language was (New Yorker)
>Dutch. Anything left of that?
>
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>Tom Wier <artabanos@...>
Well, the flag of New York City has a very "Dutch" look to it.
And a lot of place names are Dutch, such as Brooklyn, Spuyten Duyvil,
Bushwick, Midwood (< Mitwout), Kill Van Kull, the Bronx, Harlem...
-Stephen (Steg)
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