• Nougat
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    929 days ago

    I’m on my third listen-through of the History of English Podcast, and I notice something every time. Like how the origin of the phrase “going Dutch” for “paying one’s own way on a date” was derogatory against the Dutch by the English when there was the huge global commerce and colonization competition between the two. And that that’s just the currently best known one of many phrases “against” the Dutch – “in Dutch” meaning “in trouble,” usually in jail, is another, but there’s almost too many to count.

    Now look what you’ve done.