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Phrase
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Sun, 24 Jun 2001 20:31:13 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> So here's a question for the language geeks. Whyfore that phrase? The
> Hollanders I've met (that actually were from the Netherlands, not to be
> confused with all the Hollanders that live around here in Grand Rapids)
> were, to a person, kind and generous. Not the sort that worry about
> splitting the check exactly in half.
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> So why the bum rap?
Where it not the English who came up with that phrase ? If I'm not
mistaking, the've linked some very nasty habits to our nationality during
the time we fought out a fierce naval war with them. There was an incident
where the Dutch destoid and captured some ships right under their eyes in
their naval base Chatham, and they probably hated us for doing so (or for
being too greedy and refusing to return those ships to them).
Greetings, M. Moolhuysen.
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| (...) No, it was the act of the theft of those ships in the Sound in 1667. It's one of the only times that London (the city of) actually *panicked* over a foreign threat. If memory serves, it was one of the fleet flagships that the Dutch made off (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Well, I've tried "going dutch", anyway. Typically it would be the last date I went on with that particular girl. :-) So here's a question for the language geeks. Whyfore that phrase? The Hollanders I've met (that actually were from the (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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