Snow Leopard order: Language question

I see one can already now order SL from the Apple sites.
I remember from when I ordered my Mac that I could select the language of the OS and I picked English.
But here in Holland I can only select "Nederlands" in the Apple Store (see [here|http://store.apple.com/nl/product/MACOS_XSNGL?mco=NzgxMDc3NA#overview]).
Can I set everything to English if I order the "Nederlands" version?
Maybe a very n00b q so apologies in advance.
/p

Mac OS X has always been multi-language and I don't expect Snow Leopard to be any different. The only differences have been the language of the package and included documentation, not in Mac OS X itself. So you should be able to select English as the primary language regardless of where you purchase Snow Leopard.

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