some more Dutch words...
stoop ... (NY specifically, other metro areas too,) a set of
steps at the front entry way to a house or apartment building. kids would hang out, or people might sit and loiter on the stoop.
cookie is also from the dutch, it is a diminutive of the dutch word for cake. (so a cookie is a small cake)
Kill (n), a marsh land. last week there was a big fire in staten island at a transfer terminal, a gas barge caught on fire, and burned for almost 2 days.. (it was at first thought to be sabatoge, but it was quickly established to be an accident.) it occured at the Arthur's Kill harbor. there are several 'Kills" about NYC.
Trap Rock a kind of basalt that forms step like structures, such as the "devils stepping stones" (Norther Ireland) and the Palisades in NY/NJ area. Trap is the dutch for stairs (the
http://www.Engrish.com site (Japanese fractured english) has a photo of an emergency stair way labeled "Trap Exit". the first "english/japanese" dictionary (back in the 1500's) was created from a Dutch/Japanese dictionary, and some dutch words still exist in 'japanese' engrish.
coffee klatch is also a dutch term for a coffee social event. (similar to "a tea")
Sabotage--see words with an interesting etemology, below the fold.....
