What’s the difference? They both speak Swahili, right?
The Swiss but with a Klingon accent.
Australia Austria
Georgia Georgia
Both named in honor of Brendan Fraser’s classic performance in the live action adaptation of George of the Jungle (1997).
Wait, weren’t they named in honour of George the Curious?
Georgia was, but not Georgia.
Hey buddy, it’s pronounced ‘Jeorjia’.
Georgia gets double points because it was also known as Iberia for a long tìme, completely unrelated to the peninsula at the opposite end of Europe
Slovenia Slovakia
Previously parts of the larger states Czechoslovenia and Yugoslovakia of course
Niger and Nigeria
One region of Spain is called Asturias. Did I make your brain melt?
And people shouldn’t confuse Murcia with “Murica” :P
This is the best summary I could come up with:
During a NATO summit speech last year, US President Joe Biden erroneously referenced Switzerland while discussing Sweden’s bid to join the military alliance.
In the satirical video, an official representative standing at a podium between two Swedish flags addresses the “leaders and citizens of Switzerland.”
Switzerland can talk about mountain tops, yodelling and watches, for example, but Sweden has a communication monopoly over rooftop bars, silence and forgetting about time.
“As long as both tourism organisations stick to this division in all communication with the outside world, the confusion should come to an end,” Sweden proposes.
If you like historic banks, head to Switzerland, but if you prefer strolling down beaches and sandbanks, you should visit Sweden, the tourist board says.
Finally, the tourist board reminds visitors that while Switzerland is a country of “many interesting sounds” like yodelling and cowbells, Sweden is a place of peace and quiet where the soundscapes will help you “wind down and connect with nature.”
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Weird… I consider the Swiss Alps pretty peaceful too.
One makes hot chocolate and the other makes death metal, right?
https://www.huskichocolate.com/
Huski Chocolate was born In the mountains of Arctic Sweden in the winter of 2012. The vison of two Nordic adventurers, Linus Wessman and Robin Hallberg, they wanted to create an unrivalled, all- natural hot chocolate that would bring comfort to the cold and strength to the brave in the most challenging of conditions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punish_(band)
Punish is a technical-death-metal band from Switzerland, formed in 1996. The band has shared the stage with international bands including: Artillery, Atheist, Belphegor, Cannibal Corpse, Destruction, Exhumed, Hour of Penance and Illdisposed.
Apparently so.
No, you confused it. One makes hot metal, the other makes death chocolate.
One never figured out how to cool down their ingots after casting 😔
120.000 google searches annually feels like a niche problem. Switzerland and Sweden share exactly two starting letters, I doubt that everyone with functioning basic pattern recognition is capable of mixing those names up too much.
I doubt it’s really that much of an issue, but it’s a decent hook for a lighthearted tourism campaign, which this probably is.
That’s a good point.
I think English-speakers are not the problem here. In Spanish it is “Suiza” and “Suecia”, which is actually confusing.
I’m just relieved to know that I’m not the only doofus who mixes them up.
One has stashes of money and the other has
hot cocoa and marshmallowsfondueAmerica vs United States of America
One is a continent, the other a country.
Wow, thank you for clearing that up. I had no idea.
Happy to help! Apparently, most US-americans don’t.
