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[โ€“] Skua@kbin.earth 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

English-speakers used to use it to mean all non-Scandinavian Germanic peoples. When the Netherlanders became a distinctly separate group Britain had way more contact with them than with anyone else that the word used to cover, so we used it to refer to them specifically

[โ€“] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 6 months ago

interesting! thank you for the explanation :)