• oldfart@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    There are still people alive calling Iran Persia. It will take a while until Holland rebranding to Netherlands will take over, whole generations learned about Holland in school and will continue to use that name until the day they die.

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      8 months ago

      I’m 28 and it was usually called Holland in school… I’m Estonian, so maybe the news just got here later, we’re supposedly pretty slow.

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        8 months ago

        They formally changed the name in 2020, your school was up to date