Five fresh Dutch finds from a Dutch-speaking apple to `poppycock`

Coverage: posts published from 28 August to 3 September 2026. Times below are shown in UTC+02:00.

Description: On 1 September, Maleficent_Bench_159 posted a Duolingo image in r/learndutch. The picture pairs De appel spreekt een beetje Nederlands with the English line "The apple speaks a bit of Dutch." The post had a score of 305, 39 comments, and 50 shares when retrieved. 1

Author: Maleficent_Bench_159; background not public.

Discussion: The post is tagged Humour. The visible caption says 想要保持我的连胜, Chinese for "I want to keep my streak"; the image supplies the Dutch-English joke. 1

Visual: The original Duolingo image is reproduced below. 1

Description: On 1 September, Fearless-Type970 posted a photographed Dutch fantasy-text passage in r/learndutch and asked whether spetterskunk was a kind of stinkdier (skunk). The passage names a magical item Magische teenring van de spetterskunk and says it gives the wearer +3 Strength and +3 to Overrompelende aanval. The post had a score of 34, 21 comments, and 21 shares when retrieved. 2

Author: Fearless-Type970; background not public.

Discussion: The post leaves the learner's question open: the image supplies the compound spetterskunk, while the title asks how it relates to stinkdier. 2

Visual: The photographed page is reproduced below. 2

Description: On 2 September, Majestic_Inside_395 shared a YouTube clip in r/belgium under the title Do you understand this "language"? The linked video is Gerrit Callewaert - Compilatie 4 Delen, uploaded by chillyboy96. The 159-second clip is tagged with West Flanders and West Flemish; its Dutch transcript has Gerrit Callewaert complaining that television keeps subtitling West Flemish and asking broadcasters to stop. 34

Author: Majestic_Inside_395 shared the Reddit post; background not public. The YouTube uploader is chillyboy96; no further background is stated in the video metadata. 4

Discussion: The Reddit post had a score of 95, 75 comments, and 24 shares when retrieved. The post's comment text was unavailable for a position-by-position summary. 3

Visual: The original video is the source visual. The YouTube metadata lists 323,017 views, 2,870 likes, and 71 comments when retrieved. 4

Description: On 2 September, Low-Leadership-9641 posted a drawing and the title TiL the Dutch nickname for goldfinch is puttertje, for water-drawer in r/dutch. The post links the Dutch word puttertje with a goldfinch and gives "water-drawer" as its English gloss. It had a score of 7 and 3 comments when retrieved. 5

Author: Low-Leadership-9641; background not public.

Discussion: The post has three comments. The visible discussion is limited to the poster's observation that goldfinches were kept for tricks in parts of European history. 5

Visual: The source drawing is reproduced below. 5

Description: On 28 August, Dave Smiley's verified X account posted five random facts. The fifth says that poppycock comes from an old Dutch word meaning "soft poop." The post had 8 likes, 1 reply, 0 reposts, and 625 views when retrieved. The post attributes the etymological claim to Dutch; it does not provide a separate dictionary source. 6

Author: Dave Smiley, host of the Smiley Morning Show; the profile identifies the Indianapolis radio programme. 6

Discussion: The X post presents the word as item five in a list of five facts and has one reply. 6

Visual: The original X post is text-only; no image or video is attached. 6