BST - Two times at different times?

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Speelgoedmannetje wrote:

Btw. do remember that New York initially was New Amsterdam. :-)

Of course! Every New Yorker with any pride in this cities history knows that!

The area is littered with Dutch and Flemmish names. In fact my mother INSISTS that Hoboken (an area in New Jersey that faces manhatten and has a ferry going between the 2 cities) was named after the Flemish town of the same name.

And NOT from some American Indian word. Of course, the first settlers were Dutch and Flemish and there certainly were local Indians, so who the heck knows.



by the way, there is New Amsterdam beer.

[Speelgoedmannetje]

And Brooklyn is derived from Breukelen, a Dutch town...
Btw did you know also the Dollar is derived from the Dutch 'Daalder'?
And that we swapped New York/New Amsterdam for Suriname, from the English?

[cecilia]

now, yer just going crazy!   :roflmao:


happy new year!

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Yeps :lol:
'tis true, though, :-)


And a happy new year to you too :-)