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Explain why it's called Németország in hungarian, then.
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That one is easy, the name was imported from the Slavonic languages.
Now try to explain why we call Hungary Hungary
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[This message has been edited by Ribannah (edited March 05, 2001).]A horse! A horse! Mingapulco for a horse! Someone must give chase to Brave Sir Robin and get those missing flags ...
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Originally posted by Ribannah on 03-05-2001 06:19 AM
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It gets even worse. In the English language, the citizens of The Netherlands are called "Dutch" instead of simply "Netherlanders", while you call their neighbours in the east, the citizens of Deutschland, "Germans" instead of "Dutch". In reality, (most of the) Nederlanders, the Deutschen and citizens of several other nations all descent from the original Germanic tribe.
And to add further confusion while we anglo-saxons call the Deutsch "germans" and the nederlanders "dutch" we call the descendants of Deutsch/Germans who live in the lovely state of Pennsylvania "Pennsylvania Dutch". And we call the section where they live "Dutch country". While the section that was actually the New Netherlands we call "New York" and the section with the most descendents of immigrants from the Netherlands we call "western Michigan" And of course there is also a place called "New Holland" (i forget where it is) best known for a manufactrer of agricultural machinery (Sperry New Holland) which AFAIK, is not located there.
and then there is the fact that while folks from Belgium are Belgians, folks from Flanders are "Flemish", and folks from Brabant are "Walloons"
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