e conductor manages to corner him and tells him to pay up：“You’ve been on for five miles—that’ll be 50 pennies, please, and 10 pennies for your suitcase.”
The Scotsman responds：“I haven’t, I want to have a penny fare, just got on this very moment.” They begin to argue, and the ticket collector be more and more enraged and finally, as the bus is passing over London bridge, he grabs the Scotsman’s suitcase, and hurls it out of the bus.
It lands in the river and sinks without a trace. The Scotsman stands shocked for a moment and says to the ticket collector, “Not only are you treat to overcharge me for the ticket—but now you’re gone a drowned my boy Jenny.”
Charles Berlitz, whose grandfather Maximilian D. Berlitz inaugurated the Berlitz method of foreign language teaching in 1878, grew accustomed to hearing five languages at home. His mother spoke to him only in French. His grandparents stuck to German, and a cousin used just Spanish. The cook used English and the housekeeper spoke in Gaelic.