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Updated: August 19, 2024
"Reading the sign!" exclaimed Paul, laughing; "a fellow would knock all the teeth out of his head in attempting to speak some of these words." "But many of them are very like English words. A dike is a dijk." "Steamboats are stoombooten," said Paul; "and a street is a straat. What are canals?" "Grachten; the drawbridge is ophaalbruggen." "Whew!" whistled Paul.
He had learned that vrouw meant wife; and ja, yes; and spoorweg, railway; kanaals, canals; stoomboot, steamboat; ophaalbruggen, drawbridges; buiten plasten, country seats; mynheer, mister; tweegevegt, duel or "two fights"; koper, copper; zadel, saddle; but he could not make a sentence out of these, nor use the long list of phrases he had learned in his "Dutch dialogues."
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