You might be interested to know that the word “snarken” has the same meaning of to nag, to moan in the dialect that is spoken in the North Western part of the Netherlands that is called Westfrisia. This is not as odd as it seems as many words in this dialect look like English ones. Even the grammar has peculiarities which are common in English, but can’t be done in formal Dutch like for instance using a noun as a verb.
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Ted Friethoff:
December 30th, 2010 at 6:03 am
You might be interested to know that the word “snarken” has the same meaning of to nag, to moan in the dialect that is spoken in the North Western part of the Netherlands that is called Westfrisia. This is not as odd as it seems as many words in this dialect look like English ones. Even the grammar has peculiarities which are common in English, but can’t be done in formal Dutch like for instance using a noun as a verb.