Re: Pride and Arrogance Re: American Attitudes (wasRe:Hardworking?)

[J. van Baardwijk]

At 23:14 1-6-01 -0400, John Giorgis wrote:

>At 10:00 PM 6/1/01 -0500 Adam C. Lipscomb wrote:
> >Some of them were European, and I'll bet there was at least one Netherlander
> >[Dutchman?  Help me here...] in one of the groups I saw.
>
>Oddly, the word that instantly came to my mind was "Nederlander", but
>that's based on the Dutch.
>
>I actually can't recall any time that I have heard a word for "citizen of
>the Netherlands" in casual conversation.  Must be why "Nederlander" is
>stuck in my brain.

The term "Netherlander" is not correct. The proper English term for a Dutch 
citizen is "Dutchman" (general term) or "Dutch man" or "Dutch woman".

The term "Nederlander" is the Dutch word for a male Dutch citizen. A Dutch 
woman is called "Nederlandse".

That will be all for today. Class dismissed. Study this at home, there will 
be quiz later.


Jeroen

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