The Relationship Between “Dutch and Deutsch”

Abstract

People all over the world tend to call those of or from the Netherlands and their language by the English name “Dutch”. This word is widened in its sense and is applied to a wide range of meaning not only to these people’s descendants, but also to various articles, species of animate beings, and even characteristics or actions, through compounds and idioms derived from it, which are popularly used in current English in positive, negative and neutral ways.