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From: "Peter R. Christoph" <>
Subject: Re: [D-Col] getting it right
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 14:52:09 -0400


It is the West India Company. It has been that in English for 380 years. You
can call it the Geoctroyerde Westindische Companie or the West India
Company, but you can't mix the two together.

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: Ton Vromans <>
To: Peter R. Christoph <>;
<>
Date: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 1:55 PM
Subject: Re: [D-Col] getting it right


>OK, I came up with the VOC to put the whole thing in perspective, but still
>it the "I" from WIC doen't refer to India, but to "Indische".
>
>Ton
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Peter R. Christoph <>
>To: Ton Vromans <>; <>
>Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 11:43 PM
>Subject: Re: [D-Col] getting it right
>
>
>> My point was that the word is India, not Indies. I was not trying to
>> translate the name of the WIC, but to give its usual form in English.
And,
>> of course, the VOC did not come up in the discussion at all.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ton Vromans <>
>> To: Peter R. Christoph <>;
>> <>
>> Date: Monday, April 02, 2001 1:50 PM
>> Subject: Re: [D-Col] getting it right
>>
>>
>> >Hello Peter,
>> >
>> >Your translation is not quit right. The WIC (in Dutch "West Indische
>> >Compagnie") was one of the two trade companies from the Dutch republic.
>The
>> >other one was the VOC (in Dutch "Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie"). The
>> VOC
>> >had their trade territory in teh far east (Indonesia, China, etc.), the
>WIC
>> >had their trade territory in the Caribean (in Holland nowadays still
>called
>> >"The West" among navy personal).
>> >
>> >Greetings,
>> >
>> >Ton Vromans
>> >Assen, The Netherlands
>> >
>> >----- Original Message -----
>> >From: Peter R. Christoph <>
>> >To: <>
>> >Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 12:30 AM
>> >Subject: [D-Col] getting it right
>> >
>> >
>> >> Two expressions that I have seen a few times lately, neither being
>> >correct, are "Dutch West Indies Company" and "Dutch Reform Church." They
>> >should be the Dutch West India (not Indies) Company and the Dutch
>Reformed
>> >(not Reform) Church.
>> >>
>> >> Peter
>> >>
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