We might 'gesave' and 'gestream', but English is not a threat to Dutch, says report

Dutch is not under threat from English as a language and is still spoken by some 24 million people worldwide, according to a new report, quoted in Trouw on Monday. The report, by the Meertens Institute for Dutch language and culture, Dutch promotion body Taalunie and researchers at Ghent University, says English is rarely a threat to Dutch in daily life. The researchers questioned over 7,500 people in the Netherlands and Belgium about their use of the language. They found...