On Sat, 14 Jul 2018 07:41:43 +0000, Bob Martin wrote: > in 796624 20180714 064331 Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> > wrote: >>Larry Martell wrote: >>> And while we're talking about the Dutch, why is the country called >>> Holland, but then also The Netherlands, but the people are Dutch? >> >>And Germany is called Deutchland? > > The real question is why do English speakers refer to Deutschland as > Germany.
It comes from the Roman name for the region, which they may have got from the Gauls. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germania -- Steven D'Aprano "Ever since I learned about confirmation bias, I've been seeing it everywhere." -- Jon Ronson -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
