Sands: the Dutch are the people that live in the Netherlands. All people from Holland (Hollanders) are Dutch Netherlanders but not all Netherlanders are Hollanders.
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: I try but not always successfully. Especially with character limitations on plurk. LOL Besides technically I live in Holland (Noord Holland).
Yup....the Dutch and Germans get it right. Everyone else screws it up. LOL and the Pennsylvania Dutch have nothing whatsoever to do with Dutch. They’re actually from Germanic descent. Very confusing.
We also luv it when you put the e right behind the D in dutch so it spell deutch (germany) cos basically we are west west germany and sing so in our anthem
Being Dutch but from one of the provinces that is not one of the Hollands, I applaud this I can't count the times of having had to explain the difference between Holland and the Netherlands.
Adding to the confusion. I come from Belgium, the Dutch speaking part, which is sometimes referred to as the Southern Netherlands - Zuidelijke Nederlanden- though we refer to our part of the country as Flanders, but . . .
Besides technically I live in Holland (Noord Holland).