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Re: [OM] Re: [OT] Dutch/Danish (was "Solvang")

Subject: Re: [OM] Re: [OT] Dutch/Danish (was "Solvang")
From: Roger Wesson <roger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 11:48:42 +0100
Bart Kuik wrote:
> 
> The Netherlands consist of twelve provinces, from North to South that are
> Friesland, Groningen, Drenthe, Overijssel, Gelderland, Flevoland,
> Noord-Holland, Zuid-Holland, Utrecht, Noord-Brabant, Zeeland and
> Zuid-Limburg.

OK, so to go off the off-topic topic, is this Zeeland anything to do
with New Zealand?  If so, why the difference in spelling?  And is New
Zealand as baffling a misnomer as New South Wales, which could hardly be
any more different to South Wales?

Roger

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