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Sorry, Deutsch people (discuss.tchncs.de)

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Can we also talk about "Dutch"?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months 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

[–] xJREB 1 points 4 months 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).

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