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.
Word of the year (Norway) April 2009, it was used more than 8,500 times during the rest of the year. "Pandemi" () was another notable word of the year. The words "tvitre" and "tvitring", which relate to the use of Twitter, were also mentioned as notable new words, as was "snikislamisering" (). "Askefast" () was named word of the year. The word refers to people who were unable to travel as planned because of the air travel disruption after the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption. Other mentions as notable words were "app", "nettbrett" () and "lesebrett" (). "Rosetog" () was named word of the year. This referred