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Question

why don't they call people from Holland Holes?

Answer 1

If from Balarus......Balls

Answer 2

Because Not all people in Netherlands are Holland. And Netherlands pronounced in plural because it consist of provinces which Dutch as the widest language and culture in common.

Holland is a region in the central-western part of the Netherlands. Holland is a former county of the Holy Roman Empire, ruled by the Count of Holland, and later the leading member of the Republic of the Seven United Provinces of the Netherlands (Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden, 1581–1795).


Netherlands (TERMINOLOGY)
The Netherlands are known under various terms both in English and other languages. These are used to describe the different overlapping geographical, linguistic and political areas of the Netherlands. This is often a source of confusion for people from other parts of the world. In English the country is called 'the Netherlands' (or sometimes 'Holland'), while the people and the language are called 'Dutch'. Note that in Dutch the terms for these are 'Nederland', 'Nederlanders' and 'Nederlands'.


The Netherlands
"Netherlands" literally means "low countries". It is the conventional short form used to describe the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Formally, this encompasses the European part of the Netherlands and its overseas dependencies, although usually it is used to describe the European part. The current Dutch dependencies are the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba. Historically Suriname and Indonesia were also part of Kingdom of the Netherlands.

The Netherlands is among a small number of countries which have a singular name for their country, while the English language uses a plural form. This plural convention is actually an archaic term, referring to the period 1581 to 1795 when the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands was a loose federation comprised of seven provinces. The name in the Dutch language is Nederland (low country).


Holland
Holland is commonly used as a synonym for the Netherlands as a whole, while actually it just refers to the central-western part of the country. This part consists of two of the country's twelve provinces, namely North Holland and South Holland.

Historically Holland was the most powerful province of the Netherlands: the counts of Holland were also counts of Hainaut, Flanders and Zeeland between the 1200s and 1400s; during the period of the Dutch Republic the stadholder of Holland was the most powerful politician in the Netherlands, who often also was stadholder in other provinces; the cities in Holland were important trading cities, for instance of the six cities that made up the Dutch East India Company, five were in Holland. The two provinces, making up Holland, still remain demographically dominant - they house 37% of the Dutch population.

The name 'Holland' for the Netherlands is also used colloquially by the Dutch themselves, especially in relation to football (soccer), where the national team is sometimes cheered on with "Holland!". The term is also used for promotional purposes, because the name 'Holland' is better known worldwide.

In some provinces, especially Friesland and Limburg, the word Hollander is only used in pejorative sense, to refer to the supposedly arrogant inhabitants of North and South Holland. People from these provinces do not appreciate being called Hollander.

The name Holland ultimately stems from "holt land" ("wooded land"). A popular, but incorrect, fake etymology holds that it is derived from "hol land" ("hollow land"), inspired by the low-lying geography of the region.

This confusion between a part and its whole (pars pro toto) also exists with the names of other countries, such as Russia for the Soviet Union or England for the UK (see also British Isles terminology).


Dutch
Dutch is the term used to describe both the inhabitants of the Netherlands as well as its language. Dutch is not only spoken in the Netherlands, but also in Flanders, parts of northern France (around Dunkirk) Surinam and the Dutch Antilles. The European part is called Dietsland by those who seek to unite it.

The English word "Dutch" is a cognate to the Dutch word dietsch and the German word Deutsch. All these words have the same etymological origin. Both these terms derive from what in Common West Germanic was known as theodisca, which meant "(language) of the (common) people". During the early Middle Ages, the elite mostly used Latin and the common people used their local languages.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

The same reason they don't call people from Wales whales:)

Good question tho, quite funny:)

Answer 5

I need you like a "Hole in the head" !

Answer 6

or Holles?