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.
Grey Rabbit named the service Grey Rabbit, which one writer described as "a reference to the animal used as 'bait' in dog races, a wry allusion to [Rall's] relationship with the Greyhound Bus Company". Another writer said the name was chosen so that it would appear "next to Greyhound in the phone book". In 1972, Rall acquired an old school bus and in 1973 three secondhand Greyhound buses. By that time, Grey Rabbit had established regular weekly cross-country service between San Francisco and New York, with the New York trips subsequently being extended to Boston and regular service also operating between the