Re: Off Topic

["Steve Makohin" <wateredg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Fritz,

From: "Fritz Curtis" <fritzc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> OT but it bugs me!
> Pennsylvania Dutch = German
> Deutch = German
> Dutch = Hollander
> How did Hollanders become "Dutch"?
> And how did Deutch become German?

I don't know the answer, but just to add more complexity to your question, 
the country some refer to as Holland is properly called the Netherlands. 
People from there call themselves Netherlanders. Holland is just a province 
of the country known as the Netherlands.

With respect to the name "German" and "Germany", the people of that country 
call it Deutschland. Great Britain, like so many other countries, has its 
own name for other countries and other peoples. So if you live in the 
English speaking world, the country of Deutschland is known as the 
Anglicized "Germany." If you live in some parts of Eastern Russia, the 
country of Deutschland is known as "Nyimehchihna" (spelled phonetically, 
because I don't have a Cyrillic keyboard) and its inhabitants "Nyimtsi" 
(spelled phonetically).

For more of "How the English gave their own name to someone else's places", 
visit Ireland, where Celtic names have been Anglicized to sound vaguely 
similar to the Celtic original, or just plain English.

-Steve Makohin
'01 R1100S/ABS
Oakville, Ontario, Canada