Talk:Netherlands (terminology)

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This article was not written by an English speaker, thus a lot of sentences are either grammatically wrong or confusing.

feel free to edit it -- C mon 19:58, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

"Notably the Netherlands is amongst a small number of countries, who have a singular name for their country, while the English uses a plural form."

This needs to be expressed better, the form is clearly singular in English, as the above sentence itself demonstrates: "the Netherlands is".

In Portuguese 'Países Baixos' is only the official, formal designation. It occurs seldom and the Netherlands are normally called 'Holland'.

Excellent article, the historical explanation of the 'Low Countries' is very clear and informative!

António.