From: marcov@stack.nl   
      
   On 2004-12-28, VBDis  wrote:   
   > Im Artikel <41cfce2d$0$13120$9b622d9e@news.freenet.de>, Markus Humm   
   > schreibt:   
   >   
   >>Hm, I'm sorry, but my dutch is so bad... ;-) (which dutch anyhow... ;-)).   
   >>What is "bijlage"? Means this "attachment"?   
   >   
   > AFAIK dutch "ij" is pronounced "ei", so that the meaning of "beilage" becomes   
   > obvious to Germans ;-)   
      
   In modern Dutch yes. In old-Dutch it's like German "ie". A few phrases   
   therefore still sound like "ie" today.   
      
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