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Netherlandish Proverbs (Dutch: Nederlandse Spreekwoorden; also called Flemish Proverbs, The Blue Cloak or The Topsy Turvy World) is a 1559 oil-on-oak-panel painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder that depicts a scene in which humans and, to a lesser extent, animals and objects, offer literal illustrations of Dutch-language proverbs and idioms.
"God zij met ons" on rijksdaalders "God zij met ons". God zij met ons (English: God be with us) is a proverb phrase written on Dutch coins.This caption was formerly written on the edge of the guilder, rijksdaalder (two and a half guilder), five guilders, ten guilders and twenty-five guilders and today on 2-euro Dutch coins.
Johan van der Meulen (11 January 1915, Breda - 13 September 2005, Breda), better known by his pseudonym John O'Mill (a jocular translation of his given name, as if O' stands for "of the"), was a Dutch author mostly known for his wordplay and limericks, and for using a macaronic combination of Dutch and English words and sentence structures he called "Double Dutch" (itself a pun on various ...
Original – Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Netherlandish Proverbs, illustrating 100 Dutch idioms and proverbs common in mid-16th century Netherlands. Reason High resolution, striking, immense EV, used throughout the encyclopedia. Articles in which this image appears Netherlandish Proverbs, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, and 6 more. FP category for this ...
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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.
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Point is though that one of the 3 official languages (and the most spoken one) of Belgium is Dutch (others being French and German, see Belgium), but not Flemish. Dutch and "Flemish" spelling certainly are the same, variations may be in the usage of some words. In any case, these proverbs have the same meaning in Dutch and are widely used there.