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Demonland Podcast LIVE 18/8 @ 8:30pm Featuring Aaron vandenBerg

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3 hours ago, dee-tox said:

Obviously, I can't answer the question, but for those wondering why the 'vanden' is in lower case and one word, it relates to the origins of the name. Lower case and one word probably means that he is of Belgian origin and not Dutch. The Dutch tend to use a capital V and a capital D. So Van Den Burg.

Van in Dutch means 'from' or 'of' while den is 'the' and burg or berg is mountain or slope. So the name literally means from the mountain. 

The only exception to this is if the name was Anglicised for reasons we don't know!

From memory someone who knew him (@rpfc?) said he actually stylised it that way, i.e. Van Den Berg. I think the AFL media may have been the ones who bastardised it.

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    4 hours ago, dee-tox said:

    Obviously, I can't answer the question, but for those wondering why the 'vanden' is in lower case and one word, it relates to the origins of the name. Lower case and one word probably means that he is of Belgian origin and not Dutch. The Dutch tend to use a capital V and a capital D. So Van Den Burg.

    Van in Dutch means 'from' or 'of' while den is 'the' and burg or berg is mountain or slope. So the name literally means from the mountain. 

    The only exception to this is if the name was Anglicised for reasons we don't know!

    Good info. And I think pronunciation is more like fun rather than van in caravan

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    Did anyone else notice that Vanders bounced about a foot off the ground after he was cleaned up by Weid?

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    On 8/19/2020 at 1:27 PM, Nasher said:

    From memory someone who knew him (@rpfc?) said he actually stylised it that way, i.e. Van Den Berg. I think the AFL media may have been the ones who bastardised it.

    Small v. From memory, he preferred it but Ainslie never wrote it properly. But I think that was more to do with the bloke who did the team sheets - lovely bloke but slightly dim and was a tough conversation.

    I guess that is the same at all clubs...

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