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Comment by freshfey | Hacker News Reader

Interesting guide, I like the country overview, but it's actually Switzerland not Swiss.

Authors might be French-speaking, I've seen that error before.

EDIT: Actually, after looking it up, this is interesting: In most languages except English, Switzerland is referred to by the adjective. That is, in Italian it's "Confederazione Svizzera," or just "Svizzera" for short, in French it's "Confédération suisse" or "Suisse"... huh!

In Portuguese it's "Suiça" (Suisse) or "Confederação Helvética" (CH).

Swiss Government disagrees. (On the other hand, indeed Swiss Government is not the authority on English language usage.)

"Welcome to the official website of the Swiss Government", quoting from https://www.admin.ch/gov/en/start.html

Switzerland is to Swiss as England is to English.

The country is Switzerland; if you are from Switzerland you are Swiss.

It's still the country Great Britain even if it's called the British Government.

> It's still the country Great Britain even if it's called the British Government.

Not the best example perhaps, as strictly speaking the British Government (or more formally Her Majesty's Government) governs the United Kingdom (which is a sovereign state or country), not just the geographical region of Great Britain (which includes the countries England, Scotland, and Wales).

You're absolutely correct. Thankfully linguistically the point stands at least.

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