The city of Amsterdam has billed the Bruintjes family 80 [euro] for having a dog, the Netherlands' annual dog tax.
The city of Amsterdam Amsterdam, city, Netherlands
Amsterdam (ăm`stərdăm', Dutch ämstərdäm`), city (1994 pop. 724,096), constitutional capital and largest city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, North Holland prov. has billed the Bruintjes family 80 [euro] for
having a dog, the Netherlands' annual dog tax. But the Bruintjeses
don't don't
1. Contraction of do not.
2. Nonstandard Contraction of does not.
n.
A statement of what should not be done: a list of the dos and don'ts. have a dog, they just have a doorbell that barks. They
thought they had communicated that fact to officials last year, after
they received a similar bill They again convinced a city inspector they
have no dog. But let's let's
Contraction of let us. wait and see what happens next year.
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