Switzerland
Schweiz / Suisse / Svizzera
- Alpen/Alpes/Alpi : Alps
- Basel : Basle (regarded by some as historic, endonym Basel is used at least as frequently).
- Bern : Berne (older form matches French, English now uses German-speaking endonym)
- Genève : Geneva
- Luzern : Lucerne (English uses the French name, even though in German-speaking Switzerland)
- Rhein : Rhine
- Zürich : Zurich (English usually matches French spelling without umlaut)
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Famous quotes containing the word switzerland:
“I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)
“In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed—they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!”
—Orson Welles (1915–84)