At 03:06 PM Thursday 10/30/2008, Jon Louis Mann wrote: > > > of course, holland, and other western countries, (...) > > > <troll> > > The name of the country is "The Netherlands". > > Holland is one part of it, which, unfortunately, > > has permeated western languages > > as the name of the whole country. > > > In Portuguese, it's even awful. We use > > "Holanda" when we should > > use the horrible word "Neerlândia". > > It's like calling the United Kingdom > > "England" or the USA "Florida-Ohio". > > </troll> > > Alberto Monteiro > >thanks for the correction, alberto. what part >of the netherlands is holland? is it correct >to call natives of the netherlands, dutch?
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