Netherdutch

"But I have a deadly hatred of sch generally for a clumsy and newfangled corruption—it is either the older sc-, or it is the High Dutch way of pronouncing s followed by a consonant, … The Nether Dutch of Germany hasn't got it at all except as the representative of sc-, and that of Holland has kept the old pronunciation of sk, even though written sch, except as a termination, when I believe it is pronounced s. … and if the Germans, or rather Nether Dutchmen, of Sleswick have to become Danes in the long run, and to learn Danish at school, …"