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Netherlandisms in Dunkerk/Dunkerque/Duinkerke

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A few from Jonathan Faydi, who lives in one of my favourite towns. Dunkerk is Dutch for Dunechurch; Jesuit traitor Henry Garnet and other Gunpowder Plot conspirators awaited news of Guy Fawkes in an English one (usually spelled Dunchurch), evidently unaware of the danger of shifting sands.

Trevor @ 1 October 2006 9:15 PM

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