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Sorry, Deutsch people (discuss.tchncs.de)
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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

interesting! thank you for the explanation :)

[–] xJREB 1 points 1 month ago

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).

[–] arken 0 points 1 month ago

TIL that "dutch" and "deutsch" comes from the same root!