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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, December 04 2012 @ 09:45 AM EST |
Thanks and indeed.
a Non-Hollandish Dutchman [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, December 04 2012 @ 12:29 PM EST |
Actually, not quite. There are two provinces in the
Netherlands called, in part, "Holland", these being North
Holland and South Holland. Looking at capitals becomes quite
entertaining. Amsterdam is the largets city in North Holland
and is the capital of the Netherlands, but the capital of
North Holland is Haarlem (after which, I neighbourhood in
the Manhattan district of New Amsterdam - err, New York - is
named). The largest city in South Holland is Rotterdam, but
the capital is The Hague.
So we have the seat of government in The Hague, which is not
the capital of The Netherlands, but is the capital of the
province of South Holland, while Amsterdam is not the
capital of its province, North Holland, but *is* the capital
of The Netherlands.
As simple and straightforward as only the Dutch could make
it... :-)
BTW, "Dutch" is a corruption of "Deutsch", meaning
"German"
in English, and is a singularly inappropriate label for the
inhabitants of the Netherlands.
BTW(2), The legend of the boy who put his finger in the hole
in the Dike is actually an American invention, conceived in,
appropriately enough, New York (once New Amsterdam). Anyone
who has actually seen a Dike in the Netherlands would know
that you couldn't plug a leak with a finger, fist or any
other body part... (I have ridden in a car on a highway and
looked twenty or so feet up to a large barge or cargo
vessel. Quite impressive).[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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