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Many of those words are even used in newspapers, magazines, and television. On 31 January 2015 De Standaard and some language professionals published the Yellow Book. In this book a word is printed in black or in grey. A black word is a non-official word, but De Standaard will allow it in their newspapers. A grey word is a non-official word ...
RTL Nieuws (in Dutch). 2018-10-26; References This page was last edited on 23 September 2024, at 11:59 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
In Asia, phrase books were compiled for travelers on the Silk Road already in the first millennium AD, such as a Dunhuang manuscript (Pelliot chinois 5538) containing a set of useful Saka ("Khotanese") and Sanskrit phrases. [4] Since the 21st century, Lonely Planet has covered more phrase books than any other publisher. They are designed for ...
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This is an incomplete list of Dutch expressions used in English; some are relatively common (e.g. cookie), some are comparatively rare.In a survey by Joseph M. Williams in Origins of the English Language it is estimated that about 1% of English words are of Dutch origin.
Foreign names that are the same as their English equivalents are also listed. See also: List of alternative country names Please format entries as follows: for languages written in the Latin alphabet, write " Name (language)", for example, " Afeganistão (Portuguese)", and add it to the list according to English rules of alphabetical order.
Netherlandish Proverbs (Dutch: Nederlandse Spreekwoorden; also called Flemish Proverbs, The Blue Cloak or The Topsy Turvy World) is a 1559 oil-on-oak-panel painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder that depicts a scene in which humans and, to a lesser extent, animals and objects, offer literal illustrations of Dutch-language proverbs and idioms.
Other items include early translations of literature from other countries, history books, and first-hand diaries and published correspondence. Notable original works can be found by author name. What follows is the list of the first 500 works, leading up to the early 20th century. [1]