🇸🇪 Swederland 🇨🇭

[Anzeigenhauptmeister]

Joe Biden at the NATO summit in Madrid 🇪🇸 this week:

[parochial boy]

Both countries inhabited by socially maladjusted weirdos who are incapable of showing emotions, opening up to strangers and do unspeakable things to food. Obviously the two get confused.

[Sol]

Confusing Sweden and Switzerland is probably the most common country-related speech error in the English speaking world. Confusing the U.K., Britain, and England is more common but also more of a conceptual issue.

[TDAS04]

Switzeden.

[Del Tachi]

But do they protect white life in Swederland?

[Anzeigenhauptmeister]

Confusing Sweden and Switzerland is probably the most common country-related speech error in the English speaking world. Confusing the U.K., Britain, and England is more common but also more of a conceptual issue.

Really? Maybe I'm bad at detecting sarcasm; but if that wasn't supposed to be sarcasm, I thought Slovakia and Slovenia were the hardest to distinguish. Even many Europeans cannot tell those countries apart.

Can you identify these flags? 🇸🇰 🇸🇮
Which of those two countries uses the international vehicle registration code SLO?
Which country uses the ccTLD ".sl"?
What country is depicted on this map?

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I'm sorry! 😁 I'm a huge John Oliver fan. 💁🏼‍♂️

[Mr. Smith]

Confusing Sweden and Switzerland is probably the most common country-related speech error in the English speaking world. Confusing the U.K., Britain, and England is more common but also more of a conceptual issue.

Only because of a name change to Eswatini.

[Sol]

Confusing Sweden and Switzerland is probably the most common country-related speech error in the English speaking world. Confusing the U.K., Britain, and England is more common but also more of a conceptual issue.

Really? Maybe I'm bad at detecting sarcasm; but if that wasn't supposed to be sarcasm, I thought Slovakia and Slovenia were the hardest to distinguish. Even many Europeans cannot tell those countries apart.

Can you identify these flags? 🇸🇰 🇸🇮
Which of those two countries uses the international vehicle registration code SLO?
Which country uses the ccTLD ".sl"?
What country is depicted on this map?

Spoiler alert! Click Show to show the content.

Show

I'm sorry! 😁 I'm a huge John Oliver fan. 💁🏼‍♂️

A large number of native English speakers have never heard of Slovenia and Slovakia, and the ones who have probably discuss those two countries less frequently than Switzerland and Sweden, which have a higher international profile. But yeah, people probably mix those two up a fair amount.

I know the difference of course, I post on the atlas forum! Though I confess I do not know any country's vehicle registration codes, nor ccTLD except the very obvious (.us, .uk, .fr, .ru).

Incidentally, this got me to look up native English speaker stats. I figured Americans would be a majority of native English speakers in the world but I did not realize how big that majority would be--it's over 61%. If you add in Canada, that means that around two-thirds of native English speakers are speakers of North American English. This is interesting because probably a majority of non-native English speakers are aiming for something closer to standard dialects of British English, barring obvious exceptions like the Philippines, Latin America, and Korea (still not enough to outweigh sub-Saharan Africa and the subcontinent!). Will be interesting to see if this changes in the future.

[Lexii, harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy]

Suicia, Sueza
Suicos, suecios

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

The country that has never produced a complete piece of cheese wants me to move there? No thanks, I'll keep my Kraft singles, which have never had holes in them.

[Mr. Smith]

Confusing Sweden and Switzerland is probably the most common country-related speech error in the English speaking world. Confusing the U.K., Britain, and England is more common but also more of a conceptual issue.

Really? Maybe I'm bad at detecting sarcasm; but if that wasn't supposed to be sarcasm, I thought Slovakia and Slovenia were the hardest to distinguish. Even many Europeans cannot tell those countries apart.

Can you identify these flags? 🇸🇰 🇸🇮
Which of those two countries uses the international vehicle registration code SLO?
Which country uses the ccTLD ".sl"?
What country is depicted on this map?

Spoiler alert! Click Show to show the content.

Show

I'm sorry! 😁 I'm a huge John Oliver fan. 💁🏼‍♂️

A large number of native English speakers have never heard of Slovenia and Slovakia, and the ones who have probably discuss those two countries less frequently than Switzerland and Sweden, which have a higher international profile. But yeah, people probably mix those two up a fair amount.

I know the difference of course, I post on the atlas forum! Though I confess I do not know any country's vehicle registration codes, nor ccTLD except the very obvious (.us, .uk, .fr, .ru).

Incidentally, this got me to look up native English speaker stats. I figured Americans would be a majority of native English speakers in the world but I did not realize how big that majority would be--it's over 61%. If you add in Canada, that means that around two-thirds of native English speakers are speakers of North American English. This is interesting because probably a majority of non-native English speakers are aiming for something closer to standard dialects of British English, barring obvious exceptions like the Philippines, Latin America, and Korea (still not enough to outweigh sub-Saharan Africa and the subcontinent!). Will be interesting to see if this changes in the future.

One of them brought us the last First Lady, the other one didn't. Not that hard.

[Former President tack50]

Switzerland is warmer, has higher wages/more jobs and while my German is incredibly rusty, it essioy beats my non-existent Swedish

Not a hard choice

[parochial boy]

The country that has never produced a complete piece of cheese wants me to move there? No thanks, I'll keep my Kraft singles, which have never had holes in them.

No holes. Not one.

Now I like to think of myself as an easy going, tolerant guy. But reducing Swiss Cheese to E****taler is tantamount to a declaration of war.

[LAKISYLVANIA]

That might not be the biggest gaffe because he immediately corrects himself. But the leader of Finland being a he. Since when is Sanne Marin a "he"? Likely, he got someone else on the phone and didn't directly speak the prime minister of Finland.