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I must confess... I don't know any tongue but the Nether-Dutch.

My heritage, many generations back, is Dutch and it was fun to go where nobody asked me how to pronounce my name.

If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!

People say 'Why would you learn Dutch? Nobody speaks it. Why not French?' Even the Dutch say that to me! I say because I want to live here, I think it's only common courtesy that I speak the language.

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

When we, as humans, articulate, our tongues tend to hit the back of the teeth.

My tongue is what I used instead of my fists because I was a small and cowardly young man. Amusing people with stories and being bizarre with words was my way of getting out of fixes.

My primary tongue, I would call North-West Mercian.

I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing.

The Dutch are a very practical people.