After interviewing a particularly short-spoken job candidate, I described the person to my boss as rather monosyllabic. My boss said,
After interviewing a particularly short-spoken job candidate, I described the person to my boss as rather monosyllabic. My boss said,
"Really? Where is Monosyllabia?". Thinking that he was just kidding, I played along and said that it was just south of Elbonia. He replied, "Oh, you mean over by Croatia?"