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[Facts] Re: Schuyler
I think there is no need to worry about that meaning because several reliable sources give that meaning, including this site - just click Schuyler.The language may well have changed in the last 300 years. The modern Dutch word now is scholier. Note that the equivalent German word Schüler is still quite near to Schuyler, at least in writing.

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Could you explain how Schuyler was pronounced in Dutch? Or is it not in use as a word at all anymore? Because I don't really get it from the way it is explained in the link. I'm fluent in German so you can use German letters/sounds to explain it.
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Sorry, don't know about Dutch pronounciations at all...But after checking the meaning of Schuyler myself a while ago I am pretty sure that schuyler in exactly that form is not in use as a common word in Dutch anymore. The modern Dutch word for "student, pupil" is scholier, as I wrote earlier.People whith that family name are another matter.
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