On Saturday, February 2, 2008, 2:42:50 PM, Peter Ouwehand wrote: > The Netherlands, is where I live. To my knowledge, there is no > country called "Holland".
That is what I was thinking. I knew that what I was taught as a child was wrong, but I wasn't sure which was wrong. For that matter, I guess that if some committee can rewrite the dictionary, they could change lots of other stuff too. I did not mean to offend. Here is what I learned now, looking at wikipedia > > "Holland" is also informally used in English and other languages, > including sometimes the Dutch language itself, to mean the whole of > the modern country of the Netherlands. -- Dwight A. Corrin 1201 W River Blvd Apt B108 Wichita KS 67203 316.303.9385 phone ahead to fax dcorrin at fastmail.fm Using IMAP with The Bat! 4.0.0.17 (ALPHA) on Windows Vista version 6,0 () ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 4.0.0.17 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
