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Quick context: In English speaking countries Holland is generally thought of as consisting of North and South Holland, a region in the west of the country of the Netherlands, consisting of those two aforementioned provinces:However, there are very few people I know that would feel strongly about the issue, and most of them didn’t live or grow up in the ‘Holland’ region. I’d like to add that if anyone does care, here are some reasons why they shouldn’t:Every language has their own names for different countriesIn the case of the Netherlands, the name given to the country can be grouped into 3 categories for most languages:A phonetic version of Nederland, e.g., Niederlande, Нидерланды, 네덜란드, etc.A literal translation of Nederland as the lower lands, e.g., the Netherlands, les Pays-Bas, Países Bajos, etc.A phonetic version of Holland, e.g., Hollanda, Ολλανδία, 荷兰, オランダ, etc.It’s thus not surprising that when a foreigner visits the Netherlands, and speaks English as their 2nd or even 3rd language, they will choose whichever English translation is closest to the country’s name in their native language.The Dutch use both Holland and Nederland as a name for their countryCase in point: Any international football match such as the World Cup. Listen to the Dutch fans chant and you’ll here phrases like “Hup Holland Hup” (go Holland go) and “Nederland o Nederland, wij worden kampioen!” (Netherlands oh Netherlands, we will be the champions!).

A good rule of thumb is that the longer and closer two groups have been in contact with each other, the more likely it is for their endonyms (local names for themselves) to differ from their exonyms (external names for each other). There are many ways this can happen:1. Divergence of pronunciation. Borrowing a name from one language to another necessarily involves fitting it into a new phonemic (and sometimes grammatical) structure. Furthermore, over time pronunciations change, drifting words further apart. Sometimes it's actually the endonym that changes more: for example, the English pronunciation of Paris is closer to the Old French pronunciation that the Modern French one is.2. Spelling pronunciations. Different languages have different orthographic conventions, which may be wrongly applied to borrowed names, especially ones that are primarily encountered in written rather than spoken form. Hence the pronunciations of Mexico with a [ks], Laos with a [s], and Azores with no [e].3. Calques. When the meaning of an endonym is transparent, it is sometimes translated rather than borrowed directly: for example Ivory Coast for Côte d'Ivoire, États Unis for United States, or (via Venetian) Montenegro for Crna Gora.4. Synecdoche. Often an exonym derives from the name of a subpart of the thing being described (pars pro toto). Historically the name of a tribe or confederation of tribes may have been applied to a wider area: the Germani (and Allemani) of Germany, the Graikoi of Greece. More recently the same has happened for politically dominant regions: Holland in the Netherlands or (in some places) England in the UK.Sometimes the opposite happens, when a more general term ends up being narrowed (totum pro parte). An extreme example is the Germanic term *Walhaz, which originally referred to all the Latin and Celtic speaking inhabitants of the Western Roman Empire, but was separately narrowed to create the exonyms Wales, Wallonia, Gaul, Wallachia and others.5. Shortenings. A shortening or abbreviation may hide the connection between an exonym and endonym: for example, the Chinese déguó from Deutschland or the Swahili Ureno from o reino = the Kingdom (of Portugal).6. Pejoratives. Just as endonyms sometimes derive from a generic word meaning people or language (eg Deutsch = folk), exonyms sometimes derive from descriptions like 'nonsense-speaking' or 'non-speaking'. The Slavic term for Germany, Nemtsi, means mute, while the exonym Berber comes from the Ancient Greek word barbarian, which referred to all nonsense (ie non-Greek) speaking foreigners. More recent examples include the Māori word for France, Wīwī, an imitation of "oui, oui", and the Lakota word for Germany, Iyášiča Makȟóčhe (bad speaker land), possibly a reference to German settlers who didn't speak English.7. Renaming. Sometimes geographic renaming may leave other languages using the older name as an exonym (at least for a while), particularly if it has cultural significance. For example, Istanbul is still Constantinople in Greek, while Chennai and Mumbai are still Madras and Bombay for many speakers.8. Intentional neologisms. Sometimes new names are intentionally created for foreign locations when required. This is most common in signed languages such as ASL, since these languages use cheremes (sign units) rather than phonemes (sound units), making direct loaning impossible (though calques are still possible). Interestingly, with increasing contact between deaf communities worldwide, some signed exonyms are being replaced by their endonym counterparts: for example the sign for America in Auslan is now the same as in ASL, while the sign for Australia in BSL is now similar to Auslan.One fascinating case of intentional neologisms in a spoken language is in Navajo. During WWII the US army employed hundreds of bilingual Navajo speakers to transmit coded messages more efficiently than machines. Due to its complex grammar and near complete lack of non-native speakers, Navajo was well suited to the task. As part of the operation, code words were created for various countries to avoid giving away any information. Some of these have remained part of the language ever since (in some cases displacing existing exonyms). Examples include:Spain = Dibé diníí bikéyah (sheep pain land), a terrible bilingual pun.Canada = Deeteel bikéyah (moose land).France = Dáághahii Dineʼé bikéyah (moustache people land).Sweden = Chʼah Bideeʼí Dineʼé bikéyah (horned hat people land), presumably a (historically inaccurate) Viking reference.

Initially nothing. Then Ferries from France and Holland will land containers full of goodies for sale in UK.. mainly England .These containers will travel north to Belfast ,take container ferries to Liverpool or Cairnryan and start flogging their stuff in the UK. British Customs and the British Exchequer will be out of pocket. Containers arriving in Ireland .. directly by ferries from UK will be inspected . Containers arriving from NI to Ferry ports in Rosslare and Cork ,will be inspected before being allowed on Ferries to the rest of the EU. The EU will insist on this . Any such containers will be impounded until tariffs are paid.Containers of goodies from the UK via NI and trapped in Ireland,will not be inspected, and will appear at knockdown prices at car boot sales . However with only 5 million consumers there is a limit to the number of microwave ovens we can buy.In short order the British exchequer will start inspecting containers at Belfast..much to the annoyance of the DUP and against their public stance. . They will not be very worried about the EU microwave ovens for sale in NI ,because with only 1.8 million consumers, their kitchens will be full… They are more worried about the 66 million potentially ovenless people in mainland UK.Soon after the British smugglers will wise up, and make arrangements with unscrupulous Irish gangster types, and empty their UK containers in barns and cattle sheds and reload the stuff into Irish containers ,in the hope of fooling the inspectors at the ports. Likewise the same unscrupulous gangster types will fill the same UK containers with EU produce,in the hope of getting into mainland UK.This is why a No Deal No Border No inspection stance of the British is nonsense . The Irish wisely have made no such committment. We would expect our EU colleagues to subsidize the additional inspections we will need to do on goods leaving Ireland.