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Andy

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The Island at the Center of the World, it's the story of how the Dutch settled Manhattan. Fascinating. I love this stuff

One bit of lore I didn't know, is that the Dutch are responsible for our terms today, "Landscape" and "Still Life" - in Dutch, landschap and stilleven. Love the Dutch :thumb

ivar

Andy wrote:

One bit of lore I didn't know, is that the Dutch are responsible for our terms today, "Landscape" and "Still Life" - in Dutch, landschap and stilleven.

And what about words close to you? wall street - waalstraat, brooklyn - breukelen, harlem - haarlem and plenty more!

Andy wrote:

Love the Dutch

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Andy

ivar wrote:

And what about words close to you? wall street - waalstraat, brooklyn - breukelen, harlem - haarlem and plenty more!

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Yep.

And Wall Street, actually there was a wall (I knew this) but there's a drawing of it in the book from the 1600s... big palisade wall, very cool

ivar

Andy wrote:

Yep.

And Wall Street, actually there was a wall (I knew this) but there's a drawing of it in the book from the 1600s... big palisade wall, very cool

Thought of some more .... Flushing - Vlissingen, Gramercy - Kromme Zee, Staten Island - Staten Land, the Bowery - de Bouwerij

thebigsky

Alles ik alles van tevoren geweten had!

The Dutch daughter of my parent's friends came to stay with us in England for a month when I was 18. We got on quite well, and I learnt Dutch to impress her. It worked but the relationship did fizzle out after a couple of years of travelling backwards and forwards between Holland and England.

Now I'm left with a second language that I never use (except when I'm drunk,) not to mention the fact that nearly all the Dutch speak English.

So any excuse to use it

Charlie.

gubbs

Wasn't Wall street once the Northern boundary of Manhattan??