Jeroen van Baardwijk wrote:
>
> Can anyone explain why you foreigners keep calling it
> "Holland"? It's annoying has hell. Oh, and saying
> "Because it's easier" isn't good enough
> as an explanation...
>
In Portuguese, there are two synonyms that we use to
refer to the Nederlands: _Holanda_ and _Paises Baixos_,
meaning "Low Countries". But 99% of the times, we use
Holanda. Maybe it's time to try to create a new word,
_Nederlandia_, that would fit nicely with
Pt rules and would be more... err... politically
correct.
BTW, when was the name _The Netherlands_ first used?
Alberto Monteiro
