Hi Jinx,

... some comments, see below....

Greets from Jochen Feldhaar (German... ;-))

Jinx wrote:

>>>Incidentally, where does the word "Dutch" come from?  I can't=20
>>>see how you get there from "Nederlands" !
>>>
>Confused ? Now we get to Dutch. If you have ever been confused
>by the similarity of "Dutch" and Deutsch" (the German word for
>German), there is a good reason. Dutch used to be the language
>of Germany, including the Netherlands, and is still most closely
>related to German (and to English). It eventually came to be applied
>to any dialect, and generically to German as a whole. From the
>language, it was naturally extended to those who spoke it, and so
>Deutschland (Germany) came about. Simple. Or does it sound
>like double Dutch ?"
>
The Swiss cal their language "Schwitzerd=FCtsch" , where "d=FCtsch"=20
"deutsch" and "dutch" are quite similar in pronounciation. Also the=20
German dialect of the low countris (almost a hybrid with modern dutch,=20
is called "plattd=FCtsch", which even most Germans will not understand. S=
o=20
the root is common for all of these.

Also, Saxons and Anglo-Saxons.... enriched about 1066 by some words that=20
seem French to me... ;-)

Have fun

>
>
>And the French, at least, have none of this and refer to the
>Netherlands simply as Pay Bas (Low Countries)
>

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