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From: Declan Murphy <declan_murphy@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Dutch/Japanese bilinguals?
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:06:42 +0900
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jim_breen@hotmail.com wrote:
> Apud Aki Moilanen <akmoilan@paju.oulu.fi> (sci.lang.japan) hoc legimus:
> 
>>Michael Cash wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 12:48:37 +0200, Aki Moilanen
>>><akmoilan@paju.oulu.fi> brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:
>>>
>>>>Ha! Only one of the nations starts with "D".
>>>
>>>Daneland and Der Nederlands
> 
>>Hmm. What language is that? (Dutch is <Nederland>.)
>>Ok, in German it's "Die Niederlande".
>>On the other hand, I call the country "Alankomaat", so there.
> 
> I think of it as "The Low Countries".

And not just Holland in everyday speech? 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.