We’ve all heard that the words cookie and coleslaw originated in Dutch. But did you know brewery and pinky are also of Dutch origin? And both Broadway and Wall Street owe their names to the Dutch as ...
No fewer than 17,560 Dutch words have been incorporated into 138 languages around the globe, according to researchers at the Meertens Institute. The report is the result of an eight-year research ...
Cape Town - It's no secret that Afrikaans was once classified as the 'Kombuistaal' of it's origin language, Dutch. Although many pure Dutch words have translated into Afrikaans as is, there are also ...
My fellow bloggers over at BNET Intercom have revealed some fun facts about National Boss Day (which is today, by the way, lest you forget to buy your boss a box of chocolates or a bottle of the ...
Cape Town - It's no secret that Afrikaans was once classified as the 'Kombuistaal' of it's origin language, Dutch. Although many pure Dutch words have translated into Afrikaans as is, there are also ...