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[-] Skua@kbin.earth 30 points 6 months ago

English-speakers used to use it to mean all non-Scandinavian Germanic peoples. When the Netherlanders became a distinctly separate group Britain had way more contact with them than with anyone else that the word used to cover, so we used it to refer to them specifically

[-] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 6 months ago

interesting! thank you for the explanation :)

[-] xJREB@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

If I remember correctly, this is also one of the leading explanations why the Pennsylvania Dutch are called like that even though they speak German (or a German dialect).

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

Germans in America were a massively more influential subculture before WWI. Notably: not because of WWI. The heart of German-American culture was in New York City, where all the richest families took a boat for a holiday cruise, and one year it sank.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS_General_Slocum#1904_disaster

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