Barking -- Some general thoughts

[bryantm3]

Originally Posted by King of Snake

It's not all that great actually. We have a bunch more cities starting with The (or Den in sort of archaic dutch) like Den Bosch or Den Helder although I don't think these tend to be translated like Den Haag/The Hague does.
Of course in englsih translation our whole country has a "The" as the first part of the name: The Netherlands, and we are definitely pretty cool

(Sorry, totally OT again )

for some reason, "the hague" creeps me out. just the fact that it is central to the world criminal court and many UN operations. i can see it as a 1984-style centre of global totalitarianism someday.