>> Thereby we speak Dutch (where the hell came that word from?)
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>Isn't only the English speakers that use the term "Dutch", which is a slur of Deutch. Really a failure to fully grasp or care about the difference between the Netherlands and Germany. It really ticks me off all of anglicizing of foreign places.
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>Lisoba: Lisbon
>Koln: Colonge
>Munchen: Munich
>Deutchland: Germany
>Nippon: Japan
The spelling of the first four is:
Lisboa
Köln
München
Deutschland
In case of technical problems, you can replace "ö" with "oe", and ü with ue.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
