Boers

[Sigvald Grøsfjeld jr.]

H.W.Fluks at kpn.com skrev: > Larry wrote:
 
>> Glomgold replies "I'm a Boer" (which I think
>> means he has Dutch ancestry).
> 
> Technically, a Boer can mean any white person in
> South Africa that speaks the Afrikaans language.
> This language is indeed derived from the Dutch,
> and many Boers will be of Dutch ancestry, but
> there are also many of German and French ancestry
> etc. For instance the Botha family's name is
> derived from the German "Both".

Are you sure? First names as Pieter and Pik sound more
Dutch to me. Traditional German names are more like:
Otto, Wilhelm, Adolf, Helmut, Friederich, Herman,
Heinrich, Gerhard, Konrad, etc.

> Not to mention Terreblanche (a French name).
> let's indeed not mention him. 8-)

No, but we should mention that DeKlerk seems to be a
name of Dutch origin.

Sigvald :-)

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