We’ve all heard that the words cookie and coleslaw originated in Dutch. But did you know brewery and pinky are also of Dutch origin? And both Broadway and Wall Street owe their names to the Dutch as ...

Thousands of new words will be included in the new edition of the Groene Boekje – the official list of Dutch words – when it is published on October 13, the Telegraaf says on Tuesday. The current ...

We all have them: favourite words. It can be the sound, the meaning, or the way it makes us feel. We conducted an entirely unscientific enquiry into favourite words during our End of Year party. We ...

In this podcast series you will learn a few Dutch words and pronunciations every week in a few minutes. The lessons are in English and are hosted by Dutch teacher Joyce Diebels from Dutch with Joyce.

The word filibuster goes back to a Dutch word for "freebooter," someone who took booty or loot. It came to mean a legislator who was "pirating" parliamentary proceedings. The term first appeared in ...

Cape Town - It's no secret that Afrikaans was once classified as the 'Kombuistaal' of it's origin language, Dutch. Although many pure Dutch words have translated into Afrikaans as is, there are also ...