the country is the Netherlands

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 6,279

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  14/06/14 - 11:35 #2

  Yeah, we know, we know

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• blueblade Posts: 88,859

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  14/06/14 - 11:37 #3

  As long as it's not the Nether Regions

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• kitty86 Posts: 7,034

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  14/06/14 - 11:37 #4

  Also a lot of the players in the Netherlands football team are hot.

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 5,692

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  14/06/14 - 11:39 #5

  Orange I glad you've cleared this up.

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• benjamini Posts: 32,066

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  14/06/14 - 11:40 #6

  My Dutch friend posted Hup Holland on her FB last night when they scored!

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• SJ_Mental Posts: 16,138

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  14/06/14 - 11:41 #7

  Not Dutchland then

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• sej17 Posts: 377

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  14/06/14 - 11:48 #8

  I love the Netherlands.

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• The Exiled Dub Posts: 8,358

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  14/06/14 - 11:49 #9

  When the cameras panned the spectators at the game last night, there seemed to be a lot of Dutch supporters with various shirts and banners saying 'Holland'

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• stoatie Posts: 78,106

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  14/06/14 - 11:52 #10

  The thing that annoys me is if I say "I went to Holland", and someone corrects me and says "no, you went to the Netherlands. Holland's just a part of the Netherlands". Well yeah, that was the part I went to.
  
  When I say "annoys", it doesn't really. It's happened like once and I wasn't at all bothered. I just wanted to sex it up a little. It's what the internet demands.

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• Kapellmeister Posts: 41,322

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  14/06/14 - 11:52 #11

  Maybe it's a bit like the United Kingdom and England.

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• sodavlac Posts: 10,607

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  14/06/14 - 11:52 #12

  Better tell Van Persie!
  
  He said this after the match: “We have to take it all in and enjoy it, but then focus on Australia, this was an incredible evening for the whole of Holland, but it’s only three points.”

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• J-B Posts: 18,612

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  14/06/14 - 11:54 #13

  I had this same debate with those Hollandish chaps down the road from me.

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• stoatie Posts: 78,106

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  14/06/14 - 11:55 #14

  I don't understand this thread. You might as well all be speaking Double Netherhollands.

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• ba_baracus Posts: 3,236

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  14/06/14 - 11:56 #15

  howardl wrote: »

  not Holland, Holland is a province in the Netherlands....so that's sorted, no one will call the Netherlands,Holland any more.

  
  Actually, the province of Holland has not existed for a long time either. It's now 2 separate provinces of North Holland and South Holland.

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• stoatie Posts: 78,106

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  14/06/14 - 11:58 #16

  Are we going to have a similar thread about America, too?

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• darkjedimaster Posts: 18,621

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  14/06/14 - 12:06 #17

  blueblade wrote: »

  As long as it's not the Nether Regions

  
  That would be the Red Light District in Amsterdam.

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• I, Candy Posts: 3,710

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  14/06/14 - 12:09 #18

  At least we can say "Russia" these days without causing offence to somebody from Belarus or Azerbaijan.

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• gashead Posts: 13,816

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  14/06/14 - 12:27 #19

  benjamini wrote: »

  My Dutch friend posted Hup Holland on her FB last night when they scored!

  sodavlac wrote: »

  Better tell Van Persie!
  
  He said this after the match: “We have to take it all in and enjoy it, but then focus on Australia, this was an incredible evening for the whole of Holland, but it’s only three points.”

  According to Netherlandish friends of mine, within the context of football, it's perfectly acceptable to refer to the Netherlands national team as Holland, or refer to the country generally as Holland. Even within the Netherlands itself. I know, weird, right ! I think we United Kingdom of Englishers know how to pronounce their football team a little better than they do.

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• Fizix Posts: 16,932

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  14/06/14 - 12:32 #20

  Thanks for informing me, I'll be sure not to call Holland the Netherlands again.

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• dan_blamires Posts: 1,006

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  14/06/14 - 12:35 #21

  Whys it called hollandaise sauce then?

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• stoatie Posts: 78,106

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  14/06/14 - 12:38 #22

  dan_blamires wrote: »

  Whys it called hollandaise sauce then?

  
  Because "nethers sauce" would be a filthy euphemism.

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• coughthecat Posts: 6,876

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  14/06/14 - 12:38 #23

  dan_blamires wrote: »

  Whys it called hollandaise sauce then?

  
  Probably came from the "Holland" part of The Netherlands.

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• Ads Posts: 37,056

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  14/06/14 - 12:39 #24

  Dutch people don't seem to be get grumpy about this, its just pompous Brits who do

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• coughthecat Posts: 6,876

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  14/06/14 - 12:43 #25

  Ads wrote: »

  Dutch people don't seem to be get grumpy about this, its just pompous Brits who do

  
  Which is particularly ironic as "England", "Great Britain" and "The United Kingdom" are regularly misused in this country!

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• dan_blamires Posts: 1,006

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  14/06/14 - 12:46 #26

  stoatie wrote: »

  Because "nethers sauce" would be a filthy euphemism.

  
  I dont like that type of mucky talk. Glad they stuck with hollandaise.

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