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In 1609, The First Dutch Settlers Arrived In America And Established Trading Posts, Small Towns, And Forts Up And Down What We Now Call The Hudson River. To This Day, American Children Are Taught The Thrilling History Of The Transformation Of This Settlement, New Netherland, And Its Capital, New Amsterdam, From Landmark Port Into Present-day New York State And The Island Of Manhattan. But, The Dutch Legacy Extended Far Beyond New York, As Cookies, Coleslaw And Stoops Reveals. From Santa Claus (after The Dutch Folklore Saint Sinterklaas) And His Sleigh (the Pronunciation Of The Dutch Slee Is Almost Identical) To A Dumbhead Talking Poppycock, The Contributions Of The Dutch Language To American English Are Indelibly Embedded To Some Of Our Most Vernacular Terms And Expressions. The Menu In Most Of Our Restaurants Sports Some Originally Dutch Names, And Even Our Dollar Is Named After A Dutch Coin (daalder). In This Captivating Volume, The Renowned Linguist Nicoline Van Der Sijs Glosses Over 300 Dutch Loan Words Like These That Travelled To The New World On Board The Dutch Ship The Halve Maan, Captained By Henry Hudson, Which Dropped Anchor In Manhattan More Than 400 Years Ago. Surprisi

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Author

Nicoline van der Sijs; Nederlandse Taalunie

Publisher

Amsterdam University Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9786612453854

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Linguistics, Language Learning, Literary Fiction