Dutch Americans (locative). Similarities between Dutch and English are abundant. Examples include the article "the" ("de" in Dutch), the words "book" ("boek"), "house" ("huis"), "pen" ("pen"), and, "street" ("straat"), among others. Dutch and English are both part of the West Germanic language group and share several aspects. Adaptation of place names between the languages is common, as was the case of New York, where several landmarks like "Conyne Eylandt" (Rabbit Island) became more suitable to Anglophones (Coney Island). Contact between other languages also created various creoles with Dutch as the base language. Two examples, Jersey Dutch and Mohawk Dutch, are now extinct.
Rabbit Ears (Clayton, New Mexico) figures prominently in Louis L'Amour's novel "Mustang Man". Rabbit Ears (Clayton, New Mexico) The Rabbit Ears are a pair of mountain peaks in northeastern New Mexico, United States, north of the city of Clayton. The two peaks were a distinctive landmark along the Cimarron Cutoff of the Santa Fe Trail, and major route for westbound settlers in the 19th century. The formation was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1963. The Rabbit Ears are part of a formation known as the Clayton Complex, an area of elevated terrain north of Clayton and south of the state line between New Mexico