correct geography nomnclaturee

2008-10-30 Thread Jon Louis Mann 

  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?  
jon


  
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Re: correct geography nomnclaturee

2008-10-30 Thread Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro 
Jon Louis Mann wrote:

 thanks for the correction, alberto.  what part of the netherlands is
 holland? 

The most important part: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, etc are in Holland.

Now there are two: Northern Holland and Southern Holland.

  is it correct to call natives of the netherlands, dutch? jon

Yes, but I think there is no useful adjective relative to Holland.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holland

Alberto Monteiro

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nomnclaturee

2008-10-30 Thread Jon Louis Mann 

   is it correct to call natives of the netherlands,
 dutch? jon

 Yes, but I think there is no useful adjective relative to
 Holland.
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holland
 Alberto Monteiro

hollandaise?  
netherlanders?
jon


  
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Re: correct geography nomnclaturee

2008-10-30 Thread Ronn! Blankenship 
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?


Mom  Dad

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/10/30/netherlands.baby.boom/index.html?imw=Yiref=mpstoryemail


. . . ronn!  :)



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