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Dutch Term For ‘Greedflation’ Has Been Voted Word Of The Year 2023
21 December 2023
Graaiflatie, the Dutch term for inflation driven by corporations using excessive price increases as a means to boost their profits, was selected as the 2023 Word of the Year in Flanders and the Netherlands.
Everyone in the Low Countries Knows ‘Fat Van Dale’
17 November 2022
There have been many dictionaries of the Dutch language, but the dictionary compiled by Johan Hendrik van Dale is considered the best. Known as ‘De Dikke Van Dale’, or Fat Van Dale, it was the creation of a schoolteacher and archivist born in 1828 in the Dutch border town of Sluis.