What's in a Name?

I think I used that same title to a couple of blog posts when we announced the name of our children.

Well, no children being named here, just some confusion about how Switzerland came to be abbreviated CH. If you're like me, you didn't even know that CH *was* short-hand for Switzerland. Well, it is, and surprisingly, the CH is NOT for 'cheese' or 'chocolate'.

This snippet from Wikipedia explains where the CH comes from:

Switzerland, in its full name the Swiss Confederation (Latin: Confoederatio Helvetica, hence its abbreviation CH)...

Hence the Swiss Franc is the CHF.

And now you know.