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Hi Sanjay, Everyone is right they all use thee same grounds to tell you it. But Im to blame I think because I use them all the time, Holland is more short then the Netherlands and on the other hand I dont like the The in Netherlands. An translation (...) (27 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.nl)
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Op een zekere dag, te weten Mon, 27 Sep 1999 05:07:55 GMT, klom "Sanjay D'Souza" <sds87@hotmail.com> in het toetsenbord en schreef ons: (...) It's rather simple. There are two 'states' called 'zuid-holland' and 'noord-holland', (south and north (...) (27 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.nl)
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Mark de Kock wrote in message ... (...) The Netherlands is more formal than Holland, but otherwise both are used interchangebly in English. However, as Mark notes, *in Dutch* there's a difference between Nederland and Holland, as Holland should (...) (27 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.nl)
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Sanjay, It is also confusing for us Dutch people. The official english word for our country is The Netherlands. Holland is a province (county) within it. Actually, there are two Hollands: North and South Holland. The name Holland dates back to the (...) (27 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.nl)
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Are the terms Holland and "the Netherlands" used interchangably when describing the country? For instance which of the following is correct? (probably both are) "The Shell sets have been released in Holland" "The Shell sets have been released in the (...) (27 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.nl)
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