I wish someday I would find a Dutch that would put a "van der" on my name. LOLjustkidding.

Last night while I can't sleep, I was suddenly fascinated by the names of Serena Celia van der Woodsen and Nathaniel "Nate" Van der Bilt Archibald from Gossip Girl and I was like, whoa COOL! van der...VAN DER! GROOL!

Van is a preposition in the Dutch and Afrikaans languages, meaning "of" or "from". It is also a common prefix in Dutch surnames (being known as a tussenvoegsel), as in Vincent van Gogh or Marco van Basten. It can appear by itself or in combination with another prefix, such as van de, van der and van den (current and archaic forms of the article de, meaning "the") and less commonly van het or van 't (the neutral article het).

-Wikipedia

Ohhh the things that I think of.

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