Helvetism

Helvetism

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Helvetisms (New Latin Helvetia "Switzerland" and -ism) are a large group of words typical for Swiss Standard German, which do not appear in either of Standard German or Standard German dialects. The most frequent characteristics of helvetisms are in vocabulary and pronunciation, but certain helvetisms denote themselves as special in syntax and orthography likewise.

Read more about Helvetism:  Background, Abbreviations Used in Following Word List, Figures of Speech, Pronunciation, Orthography, Syntax, Grammatical Gender, Swiss Expressions Loaned Into Standard German