• Sir_Fridge@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I mean only in English is the term Dutch used for the Netherlands. It’s a really old thing from around the 1500’s that stuck around.

    Also that’s the flag of Luxembourg.

    • kennismigrant@feddit.nl
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      9 months ago

      only in English is the term Dutch used for the Netherlands

      meanwhile in multiple slavic languages pretty much the same word (датчане, данцi, datčáne, …) refers to Danes.