Bart Kuik wrote:
>
> The Netherlands consist of twelve provinces, from North to South that are
> Friesland, Groningen, Drenthe, Overijssel, Gelderland, Flevoland,
> Noord-Holland, Zuid-Holland, Utrecht, Noord-Brabant, Zeeland and
> Zuid-Limburg.
OK, so to go off the off-topic topic, is this Zeeland anything to do
with New Zealand? If so, why the difference in spelling? And is New
Zealand as baffling a misnomer as New South Wales, which could hardly be
any more different to South Wales?
Roger
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