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In some languages, Holland is used as the formal name for the Netherlands. However, Holland is a region within the Netherlands that consists of the two provinces of North and South Holland. Formerly these were a single province, and earlier the County of Holland, which included parts of present-day Utrecht.
For example, the "Holland" entry in the style guide of The Guardian and The Observer newspapers states: "Do not use when you mean the Netherlands (of which it is a region), with the exception of the Dutch football team, which is conventionally known as Holland".
This is an incomplete list of Dutch expressions used in English; some are relatively common (e.g. cookie), some are comparatively rare. In a survey by Joseph M. Williams in Origins of the English Language it is estimated that about 1% of English words are of Dutch origin. [1]
A popular but erroneous folk etymology holds that Holland is derived from hol land ('hollow land' in Dutch), purportedly inspired by the low-lying geography of the land. [8] "Holland" is informally used in English and other languages, including sometimes the Dutch language itself, to mean the whole of the modern country of the Netherlands. [5]
Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan, a 1999 biography with fictional elements by Edmund Morris; Dutch, the magazine, an English-language magazine about the Netherlands and the Dutch; Dutching, a gambling term that signifies betting on more than one outcome; Dutch, an American trip-hop duo that released the 2010 album A Bright Cold Day
Holland may refer to the Netherlands as a whole, in informal contexts and sports events County of Holland , a historical county in the Holy Roman Empire de facto until 1581, formally until 1795 Dutch Republic or Republic of the Seven United Provinces, an independent aristocratic Republic from 1579/1581 until 1795, frequently called "Holland" in ...
Conversely, Dutch contributed many loanwords to English, accounting for 1.3% of its lexicon. [135] The main Dutch dictionary is the Van Dale groot woordenboek der Nederlandse taal, which contains some 268,826 headwords. [136] In the field of linguistics, the 45,000-page Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal is also widely used.
Modern Dutch spelling still retains many of the details of the late Middle Dutch system. The distinction between checked and free vowels is important in Dutch spelling. A checked vowel is one that is followed by a consonant in the same syllable (the syllable is closed) while a free vowel ends the syllable (the syllable is open).