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Chris Tolley (ukonline really) wrote:

Graeme wrote:

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Arthur Figgis wrote:

On 30/06/2010 09:46, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at
19:01:49 on Tue, 29 Jun 2010, Arthur Figgis
remarked:
Maybe for the same reason Brits insist on calling the Netherlands
"Holland"?

But so do the Dutch (and more so than the British these days, I suspect).

We must move in different circles

I've never knowingly met you, so I guess so!

- I never meet people from Holland, always "the Netherlands".

What about when you are in southern Lincolnshire?


Or Bracknell...

That's more the nether world, though.


Tell*me about it!

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