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Actually if you do the research you'll find it is donder not donner in
the poem.

"Donder" is the Dutch word for thunder, "Donner" the German word.
And the reindeer the Americans know today as Santa's reindeer, aren't
they also creation of the vivid imagination of someone at Coca-Cola's
marketing department?

Clement Clarke Moore's famous poem, which he named "A Visit From St.
Nicholas," was published for the first time on December 23, 1823 by a New
York newspaper, the Sentinel

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"Donder" is the Dutch word for thunder, "Donner" the German word.
And the reindeer the Americans know today as Santa's reindeer, aren't
they also creation of the vivid imagination of someone at Coca-Cola's
marketing department?

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right and some history behind for those who are interested....

both words are coming from the german god Donar or Thor who was supposed to
make the lightnings with his hammer. That is where Thursday (was Thor'sday)
and in german Donnerstag is coming from.

Anyway, just for info...

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Clement Clarke Moore's famous poem, which he named "A Visit From St.
Nicholas," was published for the first time on December 23, 1823 by a New
York newspaper, the Sentinel

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Correct, and seeing he himself and his wife are most probable of Dutch
decent, through the New York Livingston family the words most probably
originate in the Dutch language, not the German.

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Clement Clarke Moore's famous poem, which he named "A Visit From St.
Nicholas," was published for the first time on December 23, 1823 by a New
York newspaper, the Sentinel

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Correct, and seeing he himself and his wife are most probable of Dutch
decent, through the New York Livingston family the words most probably
originate in the Dutch language, not the German.


In the Dutch language that would be Donder en Bliksem.
German sounds closer to the mark to me.

Regards,
Herman