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Re: new Klingon spelling

From:Ph. D. <phild@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 6, 2004, 5:17
John Cowan wrote:
> > English definitely borrowed the form "German(y)" > from Latin, though. Before the 19th century or so, > they were "(High) Dutch".
Indeed, I remember reading somewhere that Pennsylvania was settled by large numbers of German immigrants. Today they are referred to as the "Pennsylvania Dutch." But souvenir shops in Pennsylvania today sell items with pictures of wooden shoes and windmills on them because in Modern English, "Dutch" refers to the Netherlands. --Ph. D.