I met a (non-native) English teacher who claims that Swiss can be used as the name of the country instead of Switzerland. Here's her example from the excercise book: He travels a lot for his job and often flies to France, Swiss and the Netherlands where he visits his business partners.
I couldn't find a confirmation for this in a quick online search, so maybe someone here can tell if this is indeed possible.
Perhaps she meant 'Suisse', the French name of Switzerland, which sounds very similar to Swiss. It would be odd, however, to use the French name in an English sentence.
Ok, thanks. Now how to explain that to an otherwise pretty good teacher with 30 years of teaching experience...
It's an odd name. Switzerland = the land of the Switzers, which used to be the English name of the inhabitants, and is a version of Schweitzer, the people from Schweitz or Suisse. So it would be simpler just to use Switz or something like it as the English name of the place.
But we don't.
