Your say - Lost for words 3l126w
Scrap it 145fe
Whilst filling up tanks with fuel in a barracks in , a German asked me if I knew where there was a Schrotthändler. Mistaking it for Schottländer in the din, it took a few minutes for the penny to drop and had a very amusing dialogue before both breaking into laughter.
Editor's note: ein Schrotthändler is a scrapdealer and ein Schottländer or ein Schotte is a Scotsman.
Sent by: John
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One might add that Schottländer while technically correct, is not a word you'd actually use to refer to a Scotsman in German - you'd always say Schotte.
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