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Ukraine's National Corruption Prevention Agency added major food corporations PepsiCo and Mars to the "international sponsors of war" list on Sept. 1.

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[–] Streetdog@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Except when you're from the Netherlands.

[–] espentan@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

That makes sense, again, grammatically. The low/lower/nether land.

[–] uranos@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Spliffman1@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I'm looking for the hoe land

[–] LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In Dutch it's just called Nederland. "The" is added when referring to it in English since it makes more grammatical sense in English. The Low-Lying Lands.

Ukraine is its full proper name, from the original name of Україна, which can be romanized to Ukraine.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 5 points 1 year ago

To "Ukraina", not Ukraine, but that's just a minor correction.