As the joke goes, our official language is English with a Swiss accent, and if there are racists or nationalists among us, they keep exceedingly quiet.

Ten years later a French acrobat with a Korean passport and a Swiss accent sold the mug in Paris.

The Priest says, in a Swiss accent, that he is less interested in God than in the "dirty little stories we hear in the confessional."

She spoke in English, but with a Swiss accent.

When the young man spoke, it was with a Swiss accent.

"It's the center of gravity of the London art scene," he says in his singsong Swiss accent, "thrilling, exciting and completely exhausting."

"Good news and bad news," Cordell said in his cheerful nursey voice and faint Swiss accent.

The Swiss accent is hateful beyond words.

The menu has a Swiss accent, with rosti, the potato specialty; entrees include rack of lamb and calves' liver.

An accent, perhaps German or Swiss.