Subject: holland n all   oh<br/>
Date: Oct 16, 2001 @ 20:48<br/>
Author: m donner (&quot;m donner&quot; &lt;maxivan82@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-289176898">harry & anton &al<br/>
perhaps the most interesting fact about the name holland nearly escaped us<br/>
which is that it is a trickster<br/>
for clearly it does not mean nederland as a dutch word but it does mean the <br/>
netherlands in english<br/>
<br/>
& clearly also the dutch should be the final authority<br/>
even tho english is nominally our lingua franca<br/>
<br/>
so i think nederland should stand on that list<br/>
& we should probably also change ireland to eire<br/>
though not oz to australia<br/>
again in the name of brevity as well as wit<br/>
etc<br/>
m<br/>
<br/>
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