Kees van Eeten wrote to alexander koryagin on Monday October 02 2017 at 09:51:

ak>> In Holland they they prefer marijuana. ;-)

KE> Who knows?. But please extend "Holland" to "The Netherlands" Holland
KE> is just the western part that was later splitted into a northern and a
KE> southern province.

;-/

For many years I've had a running argument with Michiel van der Vlist about
this. Apparently neither he nor you are aware of the fact that the colloquial
English name for "Het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden" is and remains "Holland".
Germany is also referred to as "Germany" and not as "Deutschland" in English.

This is something for the purists, of which I am not one. I also object to some
people's habit of referring to Americans (USA) as "USAians", a term that is not
only not in common use, but ignores current and past use and is even insulting
to _South_ American countries who take greeat pride in their history.

But suit yourself. Everybody has a hangup.

Cheers, Bob

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