mai on 23 February 2014
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S.Peelman said: Then if I'm not mistaken, mine's pronounced Hollandia in that table. Funny that it's different (and technically wrong) there, during the events and the medal ceremonies themselves the announcers always said it right; calling it something similar to German's Niederlande, so the real name (even though that's actually still wrong, it's complicated I know Anyway, 5th place overall, very good |
) is known in Russia.
!Better transliterated word would be "Gollandia", so you won't have a temptation to use frictative "kh" instead of occlusive "g". The proper name is "Королевство Нидерланды" (Kingdom of the Netherlands), of course, but "Голландия" (Holland) is widely used in every day speech, technically incorrect but nobody cares.
