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Dunglish

Where Dutch and English collide.
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Woulda coulda shoulda

Nov 25, 2009
I really like the street wisdom of Loesje that adorns Dutch cities with posters of witty wisdom in Dutch and every now and again in English. However, their English is very often Dunglish, maybe even on purpose, but I have a feeling that they don’t...

Living off the wind of some

Nov 16, 2009
Yes, it was all done on purpose, but there are quite a few grains of truth in this Dunglish festival. Note the sibilance, when the letter ’s’ sounds like a snake in an animation film trying to talk. The cure is to pronounce the ’s’ at the end of a word...

Flemglish cooking with Piet

Oct 9, 2009
SOS Piet is coming to fix this woman’s dish! Not only does he do his best food-wise, he speaks Flemish (Dutch subtitles are provided for those who have problems with his accent), there are bits of Spanish, and he throws in some English and Flemglish as...

Rock and roll with Van Kooten and Bie

Sep 22, 2009
Famous Dutch artist and writer Wim de Bie who originally wrote about Dunglish.nl when it first launched and also that English is sexier than Dutch will now sing some classic rock and roll for you, written with his partner in humour, Kees van...

Rolling tippy

Sep 16, 2009
Celebrating the 400th anniversary of the Dutch dropping by New York City produced this ‘Dutch tinted’, amusingly formulated warning sign. I tread carefully because the English is written properly and understandable, but could have been formulated more...


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Kelly M.
7.5
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  A fun blog about the use (and misuse) of the English language in the Netherlands.
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