Thanks for sharing, a great read, bookmarked the site.
The writer still mokking the Nederish, tsk tsk...
The Dutch themselves spoke English well enough to understand the unsavory connotations of the label and in 1934 Dutch officials were ordered by their government to stop using the term Dutch. Instead, they were to rewrite their sentences so as to employ the official The Netherlands. [Rawson]
And getting a Dutch Oven is not always a nice thing...
Dutch oven is from 1769; OED lists it among the words describing things from Holland, but perhaps it is here used in the slighting sense...
Great site, will surely dig more into it.
You're welcome! I'm always interested in the etimology of words. It's also really fun to see the similarities between languages and how they all come together in dialects :)
Exactly, it is the roots of all languages, that what is known as dialect. The spoken word that evolved into written languages later. And I find it fun to trace back the origin and the similarities between languages. :-)