Hi guys,

In multiple posts, I've run across the term "Swiss" for Switzerland, e.g. "I am new in Swiss", "here in Swiss" etc.

Why is this? Is it because the French name is "la Suisse"?

Thank you for your input.

It's either ignorance or negligence.

It is hinglish and mostly spoken in West / South of the country

It is hinglish and mostly spoken in West / South of the country

Both are wrong. Correct term is Swissy.

It's mostly spoken any- and everywhere, by non-native English speakers, and as suggested is probably a corruption of La Suisse.

In defense of those who make this inoffensive (to most of us ) error let me remind you that the adjective relating to the country is indeed Swiss.

English is also a country-related adjective but you don't hear anyone saying "I'm going to English".

Correct, but to me another reason to speak about the citizens of the USA as "USSERS"

Does this acronym stand for Union of the socialist sovijet emerican republics?

Whatever you like ! You also can regard it as
United Societies of Separatist Ex-british Republican Secessionists

To be honest, the strange word "Switzerland" or "Schweizerland" sounds somehow Dutch or lower German in my ears (even in Yiddish it sounds nicer). Not much unlike this strange Anglo-Saxon thing many users in this forum call "English", no one in Swiss would ever consider those dialects a real language but rather some strange chewing gum machinery moaning from some odd folks somewhere in the Scandinavian ocean or even behind Groenlandia. Horrible places, horrible language.
An offense calling our beloved Suisse "Switzerland". Barbarians.

You can always call it SCHWIIZ - one of the four Swiss words for our beautiful country

Good post, I have been wondering myself

please search former threads. there was some huge discussion on this and since that discussion, i started to use the incorrect term 'swiss' to refer to switzerland just to wind up certain forum members

I suppose that it is the correct term outre Sarine , but in Romandie it is, proudly, la Suisse

... and in Ticino, la Svizzera

... and in Graubünden, la Svizra

I only have heard it from Indian people so I agree is hinglish