Cars and puns

[Prof. Roly Sussex]

Here's a more exotic one. The Czech car maker Skoda (there should
be a hacek on the S, making it Shkoda in pronunciation) has a
name which unfortunately also means "damage, harm, injury". They
used to make a model called the 1000MB, which Czechs dubbed
tisic malych bolesti, or thousand small aches/troubles.

(if you are going to be absolutely correct, you need an acute
accent on the second "i" in tisic, on the y in malych, and
on the i in bolesti, all of which lengthen the vowel).

Roly Sussex
The University of Queensland