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Dutch people still jokingly invite newbies in the country to pronounce the name of the town 'Scheveningen'; this is kind of hard for native English speakers and
by anigbrowl 3y ago
Dutch people still jokingly invite newbies in the country to pronounce the name of the town 'Scheveningen'; this is kind of hard for native English speakers and very difficult for native German speakers, so it was used as a filter by the Dutch resistance during WW2.
- I_complete_me 3y agoScheveningen - huh? I recently read Robert Harris's book V2 based on this town. Good book. Also, there is a chess opening variation named after this place. (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_Defence,_Scheveningen_Variation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_Defence,_Scheveningen... ) And it has held great chess tournaments in the past. Plus the Scheveningen system is a method of organizing a chess match between two teams. For a fairly obscure location, it certainly got on the map, so to speak.