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Can we also talk about "Dutch"?
English-speakers used to use it to mean all non-Scandinavian Germanic peoples. When the Netherlanders became a distinctly separate group Britain had way more contact with them than with anyone else that the word used to cover, so we used it to refer to them specifically
interesting! thank you for the explanation :)
If I remember correctly, this is also one of the leading explanations why the Pennsylvania Dutch are called like that even though they speak German (or a German dialect).
TIL that "dutch" and "deutsch" comes from the same root!
Yeah, it's always so confusing
Nobody talks about the Dutch :(
That's nobodie's business but the ~~Turks~~ ~~Danish~~ Netherlands