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When concerning language, the word duche could be used as a hypernym for several languages (The North est Contrey which lond spekyn all maner Duche tonge – The North [of Europe] is an area, in which all lands speak all manner of "Dutch" languages) but it could also suggest singular use (In Duche a rudder is a knyght – In "Dutch" a rudder ...
The origins of the word go back to Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz, Latinised into Theodiscus, meaning "popular" or "of the people", akin to Old Dutch Dietsch or Old English þeodisc, meaning "(of) the common people". [46] At first, the English language used Dutch to refer to any or all speakers of West Germanic languages. Gradually its meaning ...
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]
Among the Indo-European languages, Dutch is grouped within the Germanic languages, meaning it shares a common ancestor with languages such as English, German, and the Scandinavian languages. All Germanic languages are subject to the Grimm's law and Verner's law sound shifts, which originated in the Proto-Germanic language and define the basic ...
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
It is widely spoken on Saba and Sint Eustatius. On Saba and St. Eustatius, the majority of the education is in English only, with some bilingual English-Dutch schools. 90-93% of the Dutch people can also speak English as a foreign language. (see also: English language in the Netherlands)
Folk etymology traces the name to the 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz, but the Oxford English Dictionary records the first occurrence as "Oss" in 1908. [55] Frank Baum's original book predates this and may have inspired the name, [56] but it is also possible Baum himself was influenced by Australia in his development of Oz. [57]
e is the most frequently used letter in the Dutch alphabet, as it is in English. The least frequently used letters are q and x , similar to English. i and j together (1), the digraph ij (2) and y (4) can all be found in Dutch words; only ÿ (3) is not used in Dutch.