>It's not "Holland", it's "The Netherlands". The name "Holland" refers >only to the area covered by two of our 12 provinces, Noord-Holland en >Zuid-Holland. > >Class dismissed. :-)
OK, teacher, so how come it isn't "Nederlanden" instead of "Nederland"?
Actually, both are correct. The name "Nederland" is the short form; the long form is "Koninkrijk der Nederlanden" (English: "Kingdom of the Netherlands").
>For a foreigner, you appear to be well-informed; have you been here >recently?
No, not really, in 1971 Philips offered me a job in Eindhoven to be trained as a hardware support guy. After the training I was supposed to go to the Middle East. Never did happen though.
I've been home several times and roamed around a bit. Last time was 1991.
Let me know when you're coming this way again, and I'll see if I can get us a table at Dzjengis Khan. :-)
Mams told me she'd burn my clothes if I ever went to the "red district" in Amsterdam :-)
I won't tell if you won't tell... <GRIN>
"Uh-oh. Time for another crash course in Dutch geography."
Mams, lives in 's Gravenhage (now tell me how's anyone going to know where that is? :-)
They'll know once I tell them that the city is known in English as "The Hague". :-)
Used to get behind the "bromvietsen(sp?)"
Spelling correction: replace the "v" with "f".
Jeroen "You ain't much if you ain't Dutch" van Baardwijk
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