On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Marcin Szamotulski <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06:45 Wed 04 Jan , tux. wrote: >> Bram Moolenaar schrob am 03.01.2012 22:57: >> > Only officially. Holland sounds a lot nicer. >> >> Most Dutch people I know call themself "from the Netherlands" instead of >> "from Holland", because it sounds nicer to THEM. :-) >> >> -- >> You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. >> Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. >> For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php > > In Polish, if this is of any interest, we say 'Holandia' for The Netherlands. > > Best regards, > Marcin >
Here in Brazil everybody calls my country of origin "Holanda". If I say "Paises Baixos" (~ Netherlands) most people just look confused... So, maybe technically "Netherlands" is correct, but the large majority of the rest of this planet will always call it "Holland" :) -- Niels Horn -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
