A dungarees thing

You can forgive children for not being fully clued-up on such things as geography and countries of the world and language and therefore making boo-boos in their compositions, for a little knowledge is, as the adage reminds us, a dungarees thing.


But we should be less inclined to forgive the writer of the following (who just happens, coincidentally, to be American, a fact hardly worth mentioning) in a best-selling thriller -


"It is so wonderful to make your acquaintance," he said with a faint Swiss accent.


No? Well, think about it.