To add insult to injury, what they call it, Deutschland, sounds like what we should call Netherlands

    • circuitfarmer@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      It is interesting, because Nippon is a somewhat archaic version in Japanese. They usually say Nihon now.

      But of course, these exonyms will have been borrowed into these various languages a long time ago, so it kind of makes sense.