Apud Declan Murphy <declan_murphy@hotmail.com> (sci.lang.japan) hoc legimus:
>jim_breen@hotmail.com wrote:
>> I think of it as "The Low Countries".

>And not just Holland in everyday speech? 

Ah, for me what I think and "everyday speech" are in parallel universes.
We only intersect at infinity.

>I always thought "The Low
>Countries" was just an old moniker for the current benelux grouping with
>a little bit of France and the Rhineland.

I feel like literal translations of "Nederlands" and "Pays Bas".

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Jim Breen        http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/
Computer Science & Software Engineering,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia 
ジム・ブリーン@モナシュ大学