LL-L "History" 2002.07.16 (08) [E]

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From: <burgdal32 at mac.com>
Subject: LL-L "History" 2002.07.15 (02) [A/D/E]

> From wim verdoold.
>
> W!M   wkv at home.nl.
>
> Hi!
>
> Not only did these hugenotes, go to south Africa... They also found jobs
> in
> New Amsterdam, (North America), as they were often highly skilled , with
> the
> Dutch Westindische Compagnie.
>
> They had there shops in a street called after them, de Waalenstraat.
> (Walen, are "welsch", or walons, = kelts = frenshmen. In Dutch).
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> The street is still there, it has still shops in it. ( The new York
> Stock
> exchange is one of them).
>
> Wim.
>
Hi Wim!
Waal is indeed somebody who speaks a  strange, not understandable
language
and the name is given bij the people who didnt' understand them.
So you have' Wales' in the U.K. and you have' Walloons' in Belgium.You
had
also 'rode walen'. They were a group of people in Limburg who talked
bargoens (Koeterwaals), a not understandable kind of secret language.
Waalenstraat? Is this the same street as Walstreet? Then i suppose it
did
not come from 'Waal' but from 'wal'(a height of ground made for
defence),
which also comes from Dutch.

Luc Vanbrabant
Oekene

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