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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, October 20 2012 @ 11:24 AM EDT |
(By the way, Holland (the Dutch) and The Netherlands are not the same - in UK
terms it's like confusing England, Great Britain, and the UK, and upsetting lots
of people by assuming they are one and the same.)
Hey, I learned
something new! I've long known the UK distinction but always thought Holland was
synonymous with The Netherlands. Now I have to find out if my wife and I ever
left Holland (North or South) when we made a round trip starting at Hoek van
Holland, biked up to Amsterdam and down to Gouda (and some other towns I can't
recall at the moment).
Hmm, I just realized it was 20 years ago this
month we left for a year at Oxford!
Of course, the confusion isn't only
in one direction. You might know this Wol, but the practice of the typical
British person to refer to any American as a "Yank" is pretty much equivalent.
Yankees are, to an American, those from the new-England area, roughly north and
east of New York. (Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, etc.) A
southerner might especially take offense, having fought (and lost) an entirely
uncivil war against those Yanks.
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| Authored by: JamesK on Saturday, October 20 2012 @ 02:27 PM EDT |
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(By the way, Holland (the Dutch) and The Netherlands are not the same - in UK
terms it's like confusing England, Great Britain, and the UK, and upsetting lots
of people by assuming they are one and the same.)
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Well, they're all across the pond, so close enough. ;-)
What we get in Canada are people from Europe who have no concept of the size of
the country. It is 5.5 time zones across and the eastern tip is closer to
England than it is to the west coast of Canada. The province I live in,
Ontario, is almost 8 times the area of England and there are 9 other provinces
and 2 territories as well.
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