Sorry, Deutsch people
Sorry, Deutsch people
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Can we also talk about "Dutch"?
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English-speakers used to use it to mean all non-Scandinavian Germanic peoples. When the Netherlanders became a distinctly separate group Britain had way more contact with them than with anyone else that the word used to cover, so we used it to refer to them specifically
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interesting! thank you for the explanation :)
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If I remember correctly, this is also one of the leading explanations why the Pennsylvania Dutch are called like that even though they speak German (or a German dialect).
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Germans in America were a massively more influential subculture before WWI. Notably: not because of WWI. The heart of German-American culture was in New York City, where all the richest families took a boat for a holiday cruise, and one year it sank.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS_General_Slocum#1904_disaster
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TIL that "dutch" and "deutsch" comes from the same root!
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Yeah, it's always so confusing
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Nobody talks about the Dutch :(
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That's nobodie's business but the
TurksDanishNetherlands
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