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In the Low Countries, Do People Speak Dutch, Flemish, or Hollandic?
25 February 2021
People in the Netherlands and Flanders speak one language: Dutch. But some speakers call it Flemish or Hollandic. In the past, the varieties were known as Southern and Northern Dutch. What is really going on? Linguist Fieke Van der Gucht attempts to disentangle the issue.
Beautiful Language Can Hide in Great Sorrow
10 September 2020
Nuances of Dutch language are sometimes difficult for non-native speakers, notes Fieke Van der Gucht, especially when it comes to bad news. But these difficulties have led to creative language discoveries; ‘I’m twenty per cent angry.’
Is the E-Bike Superseding the M-Bike?
4 May 2020
While cycling and snarling, linguist Fieke van der Gucht might spur a change in language.
Pals, Stop Complaining About Student’s Language Skills!
8 April 2020
Linguist Fieke Van der Gucht reads and listens, and writes about what strikes her in our use of the Dutch language. This month: grouches and people who complain about the deterioration of students’ language skills. Couldn’t it be that grammar grouches are forgetting the fact that writing is a co
Nomen Est Omen
23 March 2020
Linguist Fieke Van der Gucht investigated the way the old Germanic people chose their first names. As for her own name? Turns out her parents weren’t very good at German.Nowadays, parents can choose anything as a first name, as long as that choice doesn’t embarrass their child. (Sometimes this h
Who Gives a Fuck About an Oxford Comma? Me!
9 March 2020
Linguist Fieke Van der Gucht declares her love to a comma.
Do You Know What ‘a Flandrian Facial’ Is?
2 March 2020
Linguist Fieke Van der Gucht also likes biking and flandriens. During a wet race day, she is downwind of two crazy Englishmen on bicycles. Did she already know that the Flemish tenacity for cycling inspired the English to invent much of today’s cycling lingo?
