Warszawa nicht Warschau

When I was in Poland I was visited by an arrogant little German gentleman called Christopher Schumacher.

He was selling media space in Axel Springer or G&J or Bauer. During our meeting he kept talking about "Warschau this & Warschau that & Warshau the other." This was irritating me as we went to War so that it wouldn't be called Warschau. So I said in my poor school Deutsch.

"Entschuldigen Sie - es ist nicht genannt Warschau seinen Namen Warszawa - you lost."

One has to do these things - after all they bombed me Granny.