Re: Beating the Dutch
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 26, 2002, 22:43 |
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Jan van Steenbergen wrote:
> I'm afraid this is were the
> English got the term "Dutch" for something that should have been called
> "Netherlanders" or "Hollanders" instead.
Actually, it's a survival from before Germany was united. "Dutch" was
used for all the Low German states, including modern-day Netherlands and
what is now northern Germany. "German" was used for the High German
states, and so when Germany became a nation, the term "German" was
attached to the new nation, and "Dutch" came to be restricted to the
Netherlands.
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