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jamie.banks | 22:58 Mon 28th Jan 2002 | People & Places
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What is the origin of the letters CH as an abbreviation for Switzerland?
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S was taken for Sweden, and they needed one of two letters or less.....I think it comes from the Swiss German spelling of Switzerland, which is something like (and apologies to the entire german-speaking world) Schweitze
10:00 Tue 29th Jan 2002
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From the Latin. C = Confederatio, H = Helveti�, "Confederation of the Helvetii". The Helvetii were one of the bigger tribes in the area now called Switzerland - French: "Suisse", German: "Schwyz", Italian: "Svizzera", those being three of the four languages, the fourth being Rh�to-Romansch (or Romansch, for short).
19:15 Thu 31st Jan 2002

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