Semantic enigmas. The body beautiful. Red tape, white lies. Speculative science. This sceptred isle. Root of all evil. Ethical conundrums. This sporting life. As such the landscape is perfect for cycling and walking tours. The countless nature parks, each with its own character, offer up wonderful landscapes.
You could visit Oostvaarders Plassen or the Hoge Veluwe , for instance, and explore the unique flora and fauna. Holland also boasts a long coastline with beautiful beaches. Because there is so much water, the Netherlands is at risk of flooding. The authorities have implemented measures like the Afsluitdijk and Delta Works , unique structures that are definitely worth visiting. By loading the photos, you accept that Holland. When you think about Holland, you probably think of tulips, windmills and cheese.
These and other icons can be found throughout Holland. Friesland and Zeeland are wonderful provinces for cycling tours, Noord-Brabant and Gelderland are the place to discover art by Vincent van Gogh , Bosch and other Dutch masters , and traditional cheese can be enjoyed in Limburg.
Lets see now: there is no such word as Dutch in Dutch, and there is no such word as German in German, nor in Dutch, and the Dutch call Dutch Hollands or Nederlands pick one. Well that all makes imperfect sense. My family is from Zeeland, far from the Holland provinces, and always called ourselves Hollanders and our language Hollands, never Nederlands.
This used to annoy me until I learned it referred to the relative elevation of the two countries and any other interpretation was butthead ignorant and pitiable.
Before the various parts of Germany were assembled into a coherent country, Holland was known as neder Deutschland, or neder dietsland or neder duitsland. Meaning lower Germany, because of being low land. When religious settlers called The Amish arrived in North America, they brought with them the German language, Deutsch. But Americans of the time could not pronounce Deutsch; they settled for the easier pronunciation of Dutch.
This Holland, Nederland, Dutch thing continues to puzzle most English speaking people on this planet. Not everyone living in Nederland is Duits and not everyone living in Deutschland is Deutsche but most are Germaans , Germanisch. Germanic I have used the names Nederland and Deutschland as those are their names and not all that hard to pronounce and remember I should think for the English speakers amongst you. The English are also a germanic tribe and spoke a germanic language but I think that when they went across that water into Britain they became a bit forgetful.
Germania Germany was a far bigger region as the one the English speakers call Germany. Now there was another tribe that settled in Nederland called the Batavi but that might become far to confusing. Unless I am grossly misinformed the explanation above is way over simplified.
The Brits are in fact to blame for Nederlanders being called Dutch by outsiders buitenlanders I mean. My understanding is that back in time Germany, as now, was called deutschland and what is now The Netherlands was called Nederdeutschland, or, lower Germany.
In the the British ear and the British mouth, Deutsch was and is pronounced Dutch, thus, Germany was spoken of as Dutch land and The Netherlands was Neder Dutch land, both being abbreviated to Dutch land and further abbreviated to just Dutch.
That explains why, as I like to say, there is no such word as Dutch in Dutch and no such word as German in German because those are both English words. This is kind of an old post so probably no one will deny, confirm, or refine my explanation but there must be other ideas out there.
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Do better. Germans, From Belgium? Belgians, From England? From France? So it is related in a way to the name of the country, So the only correct term is Netherlander s. Dutch is a pejorative term just like Yankee is made up by the British to offend the Netherlanders. Very interesting! No I think I know!
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We're constantly hunting for the latest, greatest, and most Dutch spots for our readers. Want your business to reach an unrivalled expat and international audience? All material on this website DutchReview is strictly copyright and all rights reserved. Over time, English-speaking people used the word Dutch to describe people from both the Netherlands and Germany, and now just the Netherlands today. At that point in time, in the early s, the Netherlands and parts of Germany, along with Belgium and Luxembourg, were all part of the Holy Roman Empire.
Specifically the phrase High Dutch referred to people from the mountainous area of what is now southern Germany. Low Dutch referred to people from the flatlands in what is now the Netherlands. Within the Holy Roman Empire, the word Netherlands was used to describe people from the low-lying nether region land. The term was so widely used that when they became a formal, separate country in , they became the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Over time, Holland , among English speakers, came to apply to the entire country, though it only refers to two provinces—the coastal North and South Holland—in the Netherlands today. Got all that? In some cases, the demonym preceded the place name.
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