Thursday, July 9, 2009

The Netherwho??


I get so damn confused when talking about the Danish, Dutch, Hollish, Flemish? So lets clarify:

---The Danish are from Denmark
---The Flemish are from Flanders (a part of Belgium)
---Amsterdam is the Capital of The Netherlands which comprises of Holland, Luxembourg and parts of Belgium.
---The Dutch is a bastardized take on the word deustch used in the English language to name people who are from Holland.
---People from Holland prefer it to be called The Netherlands and call themselves Netherlanders.
(I've read they take offense to being called Dutch and consider Holland to be a province or region of their whole country of The Netherlands.


(Funny Note: the capital of North Harlem is Haarlem, hehe, don't know why that's funny...)

1 comment:

David said...

There is a rose in spanish Haarlem.