Cars and puns

[Peter McGraw]

On Wed, 8 Sep 1999 07:43:25 -0400 "Dennis R. Preston"
<preston at PILOT.MSU.EDU> wrote:

> Colleagues,
>
> As Roly Sussex well knows, this fun extended to Poland, where the same
> Skoda auto was well-known, and where, with the same pronunciation he
> indicates, it meant (in Polish) "what a shame" or "too bad."
>

It means that in Czech, too.  "To je skoda/Skoda" [please supply the
hacek] means either "That's too bad" or "That's a Skoda."

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Peter A. McGraw
Linfield College
McMinnville, Oregon
pmcgraw at linfield.edu