Maz opened this issue on Nov 20, 2000 ยท 9 posts
Anthony Appleyard posted Tue, 21 November 2000 at 3:29 AM
... the English names for places in Holland are different from the Dutch names ...- - - - - -
Erh??? I have had 2 holidays motorcycling round Holland, and the only place that I came across with different names in English from in Dutch was The Hague = Den Haag (or formerly sometimes 's Gravenhage. Also note spelling: Haarlem (in Holland) / Harlem (in New York in USA). Some places in Friesland province have alternate names in the native Frisian language, e.g. Dutch Leeuwarden = Frisian Ljouwert. In older times Dutch "ij" was often written "y". Apart feom such things as "North Sea Canal" = "Noordzeekanaal", but that is not a settlement name.