[Info-vax] Long uptime cut short by Hurricane Sandy

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <nospam-893566.18263617022013 at news.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture
<nospam at sture.ch> writes: 

> >  Even the Dutch don't call themselves Dutch.
> 
> I quickly learned that when I was in The Netherlands.  Calling the 
> country Holland wasn't popular either.  I have a vague recollection that 
> either Holland or Dutch referred to a particular part of the country, so 

The former.  There are two provinces, North Holland and South Holland, 
to which this refers, and 12 other provinces.

A closer analogy would be referring to all British people as Welsh.

> for folks from outside that area it was like referring to a Scot as 
> English or a Canadian as American.

But the Canadians ARE Americans, as are the Cubans, the Argentinians, 
the Hondurans etc.