On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Rhialto <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed 04 Jan 2012 at 10:42:35 -0200, Niels Horn wrote: >> So, maybe technically "Netherlands" is correct, but the large majority >> of the rest of this planet will always call it "Holland" :) > > My personal reason for prefering The Netherlands, or variants of that, > is that Holland would refer only to two of the 12 provinces of the > country (Noord-Holland and Zuid-Holland or North and South Holland). And > I don't live in either of them. It's like calling Great Britain England. > > Historically the two Hollands are among the most "important" provinces > because that's more or less where the impressive people came from when, > a few centuries ago, history was written. Zeeland was another one. Most > of the rest has a convoluted history of what belonged to who. And of > course Holland seems to be easier to pronounce than The Ne Ther Lands :-) > > -Olaf. > -- > ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- There's no point being grown-up if you > \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl -- can't be childish sometimes. -The 4th Doctor >
Being Dutch myself, I know all that, but even the Dutch sing "Hup, Holland, Hup" and never "Hup, Nederland, Hup" when watching a football match... I sort of gave up on explaining the difference between the two years ago. :) -- 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
