Re: Your first "linguistic" memory

13 Jan 2006 15:26:07 +0000: Des Small <vonbladet@xxxxxxxxxxx>: in
sci.lang:

>> Cf. Canada and Australia, which are not Great Britain, but are or were
>> under the same Queen.
>
>But only part of an Empire, not a Kingdom, as far as I understand it.
>A closer match would be the Kingdom of Danmark, which includes Danmark
>proper (which is in the EU) but also the Farøes and Greenland (which
>aren't). To say nothing, which is probably the wisest amount, of Hans
>Island.

http://www.koninklijkhuis.nl/english/content.jsp?objectid=13181

"The Queen has a special bond with the Netherlands Antilles, Aruba and
Suriname, former Dutch colonies, where there is still great interest
in the House of Orange. She visited these countries in 1958 and 1965."

This sounds a bit loose, considering that Suriname is now an indendent
country, but the islands are not (and don't want to be).

" In 1986, Aruba acquired separate status within the Kingdom of the
Netherlands."

See also
http://www.minbzk.nl/internationale_zaken/minderheidstalen/uitgebreide
(internal [sic] affairs and kingdom relations)

Here in Papiamento:
http://www.minbzk.nl/tu
and in English:
http://www.minbzk.nl/uk

--
Ruud Harmsen - http://rudhar.com

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