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 ...

We all have them: favourite words. It can be the sound, the meaning, or the way it makes us feel. We conducted an entirely unscientific enquiry into favourite words during our End of Year party. We ...

Thousands of new words will be included in the new edition of the Groene Boekje – the official list of Dutch words – when it is published on October 13, the Telegraaf says on Tuesday. The current ...

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 ...

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 ...

One-and-a-half-meter-society has been voted the Dutch word of the year by a (social) distance. The results were announced Tuesday, the day the Netherlands began a strict five-week lockdown to counter ...

In this podcast series you will learn a few Dutch words and pronunciations every week in a few minutes. The lessons are in English and are hosted by Dutch teacher Joyce Diebels from Dutch with Joyce.

In 2023, the weather-forecasting groundhog known as Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow on Groundhog Day, predicting six more weeks of winter (Credit: Getty Images) You say Groundhog Day, I say ...

ALBANY, N.Y. – Although sometimes confusing and hard to pronounce or to spell, the place names of Dutch origins that fill the Hudson River Valley and the region around the state capital are charming.

The new additions come as part of the dictionary’s quarterly update and include player character and non-player character, along with their abbreviations NPC and PC, meaning characters those playing ...