On 5 Feb 2002, Cees de Groot wrote:

> Richard A. O'Keefe <ok at atlas.otago.ac.nz> said:
> >If it became important to a group of
> >American English speakers to talk about "gezellig", they would probably
> >learn what it meant and then use the Dutch word.
> >
> Like "apartheid", probably the best-known Dutch word to ever leave the country
> (and it seems that you can get quite far by talking Dutch on a Russian marine
> ship - Czar Peter learnt the trade here and apparently didn't bother to 
> translate all the naval terms)

This sounds interesting, could you give some examples?


Cheers
Hannes Hirzel