The ‘practical Dutch’, and a ‘people on the move’: The Flemish, and their joint language policyFootnote∗

The ‘Practical Dutch’, from a KLM Royal Dutch Airlines brochure, and the Flemish, ‘a People on the Move’, from the title of a book by Ruys (1981).

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