• Akasazh
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    28 days ago

    I expect that is has something to do with the Dutch trade monopoly with Japan. Most countries seem like pronounced as in Dutch, only japanized.

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        27 days ago

        We use Holland to refer to Nederland quite often, even though we aware that that isn’t correct

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          27 days ago

          Yeah, because otherwise nobody knows what we’re talking about