I reckon that is true for some cases but not all. As I said in my first post here, there are probably a variety of reasons for this.

I feel sure that some are genuine confusion and a few are to deliberately provoke a reaction.

The situation for Switzerland is quite different to the othe examples mentioned. 'Swiss' is easier to type than 'Switzerland'. 'Swiss' is also used in variants in many countries as well as being a description for the inhabitants.

The Switzerlanders living here in Swiss must be really fed up.

If they don't like it, they can always move somewhere else.

And while we're at it......why are there so many non-English people on this forum? Bloody foreigners.....it's not the "English Language Forum" it's the English Forum......English Forums for English people!! Eng-ger-lund!!!!

I do it to annoy EFers

That was my assumption as well. First I thought it's my pronunciation, but most Chinese don't even know the country when you've got it written down or a Chinese friend repeats it for me. They know Swiss watches but Rui4shi4 gets blank looks.

Jaysus, its just a word, chill out. More often then not the word is used for the easiness. Just because some people may have a bad attitude is no reason for a shortened word to be made an insult. Anyword can be used as an insult depending on the intonation used when the word is said so chill out its just a word. It only becomes an issue when there is serious intent behind it.

On a side note since you you people are so offended about the use of the word Swiss, some people might be equally offended by the words that you used in your post. My point is they are just words and people shouldn't let their sensibilities be so affected by what is just some sounds mixed together.

It becomes a different issue when there is intent to cause harm to people, that is clearly wrong.

guess what ??

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Swiss off!

Poor linguistic skills resulting in an inability to differentiate between use of the adjective "Swiss" and the use of the noun "Switzerland" as an adjective, and complete obliviousness to the nuance implicit in the two usages.

"She opened her Swiss Freitag bag and pulled out a Switzerland football shirt.""

How recent do your English ancestors have to be, to be eligible? My great-grandfather (on my mother's side) was a commander of British Marines based in Malta until he retired and journeyed to Australia (via New York) ... and my great-great-grandparents (on my father's side) were London-born actors before they made the long trek to Australia (via New Zealand - I think they got lost!).

Do you buy rounds?

in my experience, Indian people use to do so... much less the UK or american natives.

Not sure if I mentioned it clearly before, but I'd like to state that I only get upset with this if it's a native English speaker, who is not trying to speak French, that uses "Swiss" as the name of the country - clearly a failure in their geography education.
Anybody else, it could quite easily be an honest, understandable mistake.
Either way, I rarely comment on it directly.

At times - it depends which of my cultural heritages is at the fore ... but I'll tell you now, all other things being equal, ales are better than lagers. Oh, and nobody'd better ask for a half.

Your Forum name is too close to "Argyle" and so I suspect you are from Scotzerland or Scottishland or whatever we're supposed to call it. But, a round is a round....so you're in!

> BRITS is shorter than Britain, so that I visited Brits
> BRITS is easier to type than Britain
> BRIT in the forms of Brits and British is used in many variants
> the inhabitants of that island-kingdom are NOT "Britainer"

So much for a bit of a rant. BUT did you ever consider who created the name "Switzerland" ? This must have been folks from Brit ! As THE name of this country was/is Schweiz/Schwiiiz

They are in Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera

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You simply forget the END of the name of this forum = .ch

Get it right. It's "Scots"...

I love the Scotch.

I like scotch fingers ...





Lovely biscuits.