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  Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
A '''dutchism''' is a loanword that originated from Dutch language Dutch and/or Afrikaans (which is a language mainly derived from Dutch).
*"Dutchism" (193 hits from Google, mostly generated by this entry) is a neologism and a barbarism on the level of "Frenchism" or "Polishism".
There you find a list of all editors and the possibility to edit the original text of the article Dutchism.
www.mauspfeil.net /Dutchism.html   (194 words)

  
 New Page 10
Dutchisms are literal translations of English words that have become part of the regular English vocabulary used by many Dutch people.
Using Dutchisms may help ensure that you are understood in The Netherlands, but what happens when you talk this way with friends and family back home?
For Americans, some words are not Dutchisms at all, but are actually Britishisms.
www.commonlink.nl /Articles%20by%20us.htm   (729 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
It’s something we’re all guilty of at one time or another and, thanks to my Pennsylvania Dutch heritage, I tend to be worse than others.
Many people (at least around here!) have heard the trite “Throw the horse over the fence some hay.” It is a much-used phrase to point out Dutchisms.
Okay, so this is Dutchism and not the way you write.
www.scootersbooks.com /Say%20What.doc   (458 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
This interdisciplinary conference will explore the place of Dutch history and the influence of Dutch art, design, trade, religion, politics, philosophy and culture in the United States over the past four centuries.
From Henry Hudson to Piet Mondrian and beyond, this conference seeks to understand how and why Dutchism (cf.
Hispanism) has fared the way it has in America.
asecs.press.jhu.edu /goingdutch.htm   (73 words)

  
 Downwind Of Amsterdam: Rolling By, Beneath My Window   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The next sound he will hear will be the tinking sound of a small bicycle bell.
Caution: Do not mistake this bell's sound as a charming Dutchism: it is the Sound of Death.
When you hear it behind you jump over the nearer edge, out of the red.
www.awfulgood.com /doa-archives/000185.php   (1237 words)

  
 goDutch.com :: Historians to explore role of ‘Holland in America, 1609-2009’
The democratic model of the Netherlands inspired the Founding Fathers, the history of the Netherlands preoccupied leading 19th-century authors in the U.S., and the aesthetic vocabularies of the Netherlands helped shape American taste.
From Henry Hudson to Piet Mondriaan and beyond, the conference seeks to understand how and why Dutchism has fared the way it has in North America.
Organizers are calling for papers for the conference, planned for March 25 and 26th, 2005.
www.godutch.com /windmill/newsItem.asp?id=604   (260 words)

  
 l-rs.org
De strekking is volgens mij fout en in de context die WOL bedoelt is het een te letterlijke vertaling van het woord bewegingsvrijheid.
Een dutchism zogezegd, net als Let's Make Things Better van Philips.
Ik heb eens onderzocht in welke context de zin dan wel wordt gebruikt en ziehier het resultaat:
www.l-rs.org /archief/000038.html   (217 words)

  
 Science Fair Projects - Talk:Haemochromatosis
Thank you (no sarcasm) for improving on my UK English.
I'm Dutch (living in the UK), so there might be the odd Dutchism there.
I'm really not sure what little edit I made in one of your comments!!
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Talk:Haemochromatosis   (819 words)

  
 Comments ch2, The Student on the Pull by Jim Eadon
Now you tell us 'the chapters are far too short (...) and I hope sex will come into the foreplay soon' (quite an ambigious sentence by the way).
Now the monkey comes out of the sleeve (forgive the dutchism): You are only aroused by the posssibility of sex entering the scene.
It's like eating a delightful dish, but you only want the beef, and the potatoes and the vegetables (which is the healthiest part of the meal) you simply leave untouched for the waiter eadon to dump into the garbage can/dustbin or whatever you would like to call it.
www.eadon.com /novel/thestudentonthepullch2tb.php   (2662 words)

  
 Onward, Christianist soldiers? | csmonitor.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Does the term have counterparts in other nations, and if so, how would we feel about them?
How would we feel about "Indonesianism," say, or "Dutchism"?
I've recently run across another "ism" that might end up making trouble in our own time: Christianism.
www.csmonitor.com /2005/0520/p18s04-hfes.htm   (583 words)

  
 Proto Germanic / Germanic Languages Similarities (page 7) | Antimoon Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
When we got back in Holland the other students presented their material and..
I really liked this Dutchism, which was impossible to understand at first!
I thought it had something to do with some previous posts.
www.antimoon.com /forum/posts/6597-7.htm   (570 words)

  
 Zaubereingang (New Eye-Candy) - Stronghold Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Havi, mein Großmutter war in Holland schon lange vor dem Krieg.
Sie kam, wie viele Deuschen Mädels als 'Hausmädchen' (is this actually German or a Dutchism?
Sie hat for mein Großvater gearbeitet und hat nach einige Jahre mit ihm geheiratet.
stronghold.heavengames.com /cgi-bin/forum/display.cgi?action=ct&f=4,422,480,all   (1257 words)

  
 Rob's World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Actually, it was better for me to stay home though, since now I had time to cook for the weekend, clean a bit, which I had't done the whole week, work on my thesis, which is needed, and even study some what for my internship.
But the ant-fucker in me (ow, a dutchism!) still get's irritated by this.
I think people should do as they say.
robbiesworld.blogspot.com   (4177 words)

  
 Van Basten Job Title Wrong   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
So if that 4-3-3 does not reflect that appropriately, a better option should be found.
spearpoints (dutchism?) for the next versions of the game (apart from perfecting the data)
Hence maybe he'd use it against weaker opposition.
community.sigames.com /eve/ubb.x/a/tpc/f/503206905/m/121203815/xsl/print_topic   (516 words)

  
 Theo Verelst Local Diary Page 17   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
On it, while running a flavour of unix, the well known NeXTSTEP graphical environment for windows, standard programs, printing, etc.
Anno 2004 (a dutchism, I'm sure), parts of that environment are available as open source, and you can have it, too...
It seems to run on Linux (like I have tried) on windows (maybe X is required), on Mac OS-X, and probably on Unix.
82.168.209.239 /Diary/ldiary17.html   (3179 words)

  
 Lotus Notes/Domino: Conventions about sending email
I participated in a question quite recently, about an external service that receives mail, does some de-spamming and de-virusing, and then sends it on to the real mail-server through a secure connection.
I'll be a bean if I can remember what the service was (poor Dutchism).
I'll try to find it, if you think it's interesting.
www.experts-exchange.com /Applications/Email/Lotus_Notes_Domino/Q_21226026.html   (1016 words)

  
 CYBER-MIND - Re: bagatelle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
I wonder how it came to > acquire this usage.
> you are right, I meant trivialize, but my mind didn`t want to produce that word for me so I used a dutchism.
In dutch we know the word `bagatel` (most commonly meaning `something/an affair of little importance) and the verb `bagatelliseren` (meaning to make light of something, to trivialize).
mailarchivers.ncsa.uiuc.edu /cgi-bin/mailarchivers/viewmsg.pl?type=MAIL&&archive=CYBERMIND&&username=ANONYMOUS&&msgid=7234&&fullhead=1   (244 words)

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