Comparison of Afrikaans and Dutch rather than "Zuid-Afrika" as in Dutch, South Africa adopted "ZA" as its international vehicle registration code in 1936, which later became the country's ISO country code, with .za becoming the country's internet domain. In the middle of words, Afrikaans merged Dutch and to a single sound and consequently to a single spelling, . Compare Dutch "haven" (port) with Afrikaans "hawe", both pronounced . Afrikaans merged Dutch fricatives and to a single sound , spelt , except when preceded by , in which case (pronounced ) is used where Dutch uses (pronounced , or ; hence "school" is "school" in Dutch
Vehicle registration plates of the Netherlands system uses black letters on a light-reflecting yellow background. The previous series used white reflecting letters on a dark-blue background. Their numbering schemes however are the same. Dutch car number plates can be formatted as follows: Nowadays the letters used do not include vowels, so as to avoid profane or obscene language. To avoid confusion with a zero, the letters C and Q are also omitted. Letters and numbers are issued in strict alphabetical/numeric order. Thus a Dutch licence plate gives an indication of the date of registration of a car, but no information about where in the country the