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[Dnl 691]

22 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

 

I couldn't care less, it's just factually incorrect  

 

One of the main Dutch 'football songs' for the national team goes 'Hup Holland hup' ('Go Holland go', sort of), so yeah  

 

And the men's rowing eight is called the Holland Acht.

HOL(lan)D ON don't forget Holland's got Talent, The voice of Holland  AND OFC Hollandaise sauce

Edited March 2, 2020 by Dnl

[VolleyRuller96 264]

Meanwhile in Poland

 

 

[heywoodu 15,174]

1 hour ago, Dnl said:

HOL(lan)D ON don't forget Holland's got Talent, The voice of Holland  AND OFC Hollandaise sauce

 

I've vaguely heard of Hollandaise sauce but would have to google what it is  

 

Holland's Got Talent, The Voice of Holland....I would very much prefer that I can forget them  

[Olympian1010 7,989]

2 hours ago, Vojthas said:

My stereotype about French is that they don't learn any foreign languages. Stereotype confirmed by my Hungarian professor, who finished also French philology, and by one of the French I know personally (who speaks English but said that he's aware that most of his compatriots usually don't).

Yeah, that’s another big stereotype here. I’ve found it to be largely true actually.

[Olympian1010 7,989]

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

Biggest surprise here would be that a majority of Americans even knows 'the Netherlands' (or even the incorrect 'Holland') is a country.

Yeah, I CONSTANTLY have to tell Americans that Holland isn’t a country (but a region?)

[heywoodu 15,174]

1 minute ago, Olympian1010 said:

Yeah, I CONSTANTLY have to tell Americans that Holland isn’t a country (but a region?)

 

The combination of the two provinces of South and North Holland  

 

For those who don't have anything better to do for 4 minutes or so, this explains it pretty well (including a quick mention of the black gold that is hagelslag, @brunamoura)

 

[Monzanator 4,525]

Well, Poland is still called Lechistan in some countries so let's don't get overexcited by the Holland/Netherlands deal

 

[heywoodu 15,174]

3 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

Well, Poland is still called Lechistan in some countries so let's don't get overexcited by the Holland/Netherlands deal

 

 

Well there's a name I've never heard of...to Google!  

[Monzanator 4,525]

2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

 

Well there's a name I've never heard of...to Google!  

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lechia

 

It's basically the same as some German clubs using the old Prussian name Borussia. We have clubs called Lechia in Poland instead

[Vojthas 949]

2 hours ago, heywoodu said:

 

Well there's a name I've never heard of...to Google!  

But maybe you've heard about "Lengyelország" or "Lenkija"?