h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I stumbled upon your BBC text on Belgium. There is a disturbing mistake in the text about the languages in Belgium. It is simply wrong to state that "Flemish" is "a language not so different from Dutch". There is not one official Flemish language, but only a variety of Flemish dialects. The official language really is Dutch, and the Dutch language rules are determined by a joint commission of Dutch and Belgian linguists. There are some differences in terms of accents between Belgian-Dutch (also termed South-Dutch in the dictionaries of the Dutch language) and Dutch-Dutch, and some words carry a slightly different meaning, or are used in slightly different ways, but you also would not claim that Anglophone Canadians speak "Canadian" and that this language is 'not so different from English'.