[-ish] Ireland, Scotland = Irish, Scottish

[-an] Morocco, Germany = Moroccan, German

[-ese] Portugal, China = Portuguese, Chinese

What rule is at play here? 🤔

Cheers!

  • Thelsim
    12•20 days ago

    When I was a kid our family went on vacation to the US. Everyone kept asking if I was Dutch, which I thought was German (Deutsch).
    So I kept correcting them, saying I was Netherlandish :)

    • @eatthecake
      0•20 days ago

      Deutsch is Pennsylvania Dutch, which is German

      • @CoggyMcFee
        1•19 days ago

        If you mean that Pennsylvania Dutch is a dialect of German and that Dutch and Deutsch share a common origin, then that is true.