mouse". To describe the food, the Swiss use the spelling Müesli (reflecting the pronunciation of the dialects). Nature: Gletscher (a glacier, in the Western Alps; in the East Alps a glacier is called a Ferner or Kees) Gülle (liquid manure) Lärche (larch) Lawine (avalanche) Murmeltier (marmot) Senn (Alpine farmer) Politics: Putsch (putsch, or coup d'état) Reichsdeutsche (Germans living in the German Empire; this term was coined in 1871 by Swiss German-speaking people.) Überfremdung (so-called "over-foreignization" of the country) conventions and customs: Heimweh (homesickness; first described among Swiss soldiers who missed their homes in the Alps) Vignette (automobile sticker verifying payment of a road tax) kitchen: (Bircher-)Müesli (muesli, a breakfast food with cereals, milk, yogurt, and fruits) Cordon bleu (breaded cutlet dish of traditionally veal or pork pounded thin and wrapped around a slice of ham and a slice of cheese, breaded, and then pan fried) Fondue (fondue, a melted cheese dish) Raclette (raclette, a melted cheese dish) Bündnerfleisch (a seasoned, dried meat, also called Bindenfleisch or Viande des Grisons.) Other: unentwegt (unflagging) See also Swiss German Standard German Swiss Standard German References External links Helvetisms in the German "Universalwörterbuch": "Der schweizerische Wortschatz des Deutschen" von Maria Grazia Chiaro. Dictionary project about Helvetisms and other variants of German language: "Wörterbuch der nationalen und regionalen Varianten der deutschen Standardsprache" Blog about it: blogwiese.ch Le français... et le romand – Swissinfo German language Swiss culture Sociolinguistics