UUCJEFF@ECNCDC.BITNET (jeff beer) (02/04/90)
> >Didn't NY used to be called New Amsterdam? Also you Hoboken people might like >to know that Hoboken is a place in the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium. > >Gavin >-- you know I never called myself European till I signed up on this list... Indeed New York used to be known as New Amsterdam. And don't you wish it still was? Then you would have Frankie and Liza Minelli singing "New Amsterdam New Amsterdam". It would have improved the song 1000%. Dutch speaking part of Belguim? Oh yes, I seem to remember once they declared Flemish and Dutch to be the same language. But don't the some of the Dutch speaker Frier (or something like that)? Jeff Beer >- So YES to the Dutch way of saying NO!!