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Re: Word usage in group versus out of group.

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Sunday, May 23, 1999, 1:09
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? > >=========================================== >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) ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]