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Diestsche is old spelling Dutch, Diestse is a more recent spelling, which was introduced during the Belgian Dutch spelling reform of 1946. (1947 in the Netherlands.)

So the painting dates from before 1946, but that is no surprise.

 

Thanks for info.

It's a start!

 

Things Belgian are often complicated, due to a turbulent history.

 

Diestsche has a hint of German about it in my mind. Was the language reform a move away from this, after the war?

I've met a few complicated Dutch people

 

The late '40s spelling reform was a simplification of the written language. All Dutch names ending in -sche or -sch were pronounced as -se and -s anyway, so it made sense to change from -sch to -s.

I am one of those. Mind you, I live a stone's throw from the Belgian border and I have Belgian relatives, so that makes sense.

 

Fair doos. I kind of like all the quirks in the English language. There are many as you know.

 

Yes, I don't think the Brits believe in spelling reform as much as Dutch speakers do.

 

We can leave that to the Americans to do.

 

Hi Bev, this is the largest I can do, it is just under a meg


And WOW! Thank you so much everyone for your ideas, I am so grateful for all your information!!!!!

 

AI is actually very useful when you don't have much time and want to write a text with little importance and it doesn't matter if it contains a few errors.... such as a federal health report

 

Right? And who needs all those pesky vaccines either? As Jody Ernst so rightly points out.... "Well, we're all going to die."

Debora

 

Could it be P.R.B. ou something. I can't make out that last word, but it might be the artist initials with the place name Ou means where or which so it could be "of" and the name of the place. There is a last name of Lengier.

 

That would be 'de' or 'du', depending on the gender, never 'ou'. Ou can also mean 'or'.

Lengier is a Polish name, which doesn't mean it can't pop up elsewhere, people migrate. But this 'lengier' is written with a lower case l, whereas the B is upper case. So the B is the first letter of the surname, after the initials P.R.
The complete siggy is P.R. Boulengier imo.