Re: OT Why Germany? [was Re: Guido van Rossum resigns as Python leader]
On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 3:11 AM Steven D'Aprano < steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jul 2018 07:41:43 +, Bob Martin wrote: > > > in 796624 20180714 064331 Gregory Ewing > > wrote: > >>Larry Martell wrote: > >>> And while we're talking about the Dutch, why is the country called > >>> Holland, but then also The Netherlands, but the people are Dutch? > >> > >>And Germany is called Deutchland? > > > > The real question is why do English speakers refer to Deutschland as > > Germany. > > > And then there’s the Pennsylvania Dutch. They make good egg noodles. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
OT Why Germany? [was Re: Guido van Rossum resigns as Python leader]
On Sat, 14 Jul 2018 07:41:43 +, Bob Martin wrote: > in 796624 20180714 064331 Gregory Ewing > wrote: >>Larry Martell wrote: >>> And while we're talking about the Dutch, why is the country called >>> Holland, but then also The Netherlands, but the people are Dutch? >> >>And Germany is called Deutchland? > > The real question is why do English speakers refer to Deutschland as > Germany. It comes from the Roman name for the region, which they may have got from the Gauls. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germania -- Steven D'Aprano "Ever since I learned about confirmation bias, I've been seeing it everywhere." -- Jon Ronson -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
