Balkan Mix-up
After interviewing a particularly short-spoken job candidate, the manager described the job applicant to her boss as rather monosyllabic.
Her boss said, “Really? Where is Monosyllabia?”
Thinking that her boss was just kidding, the manager played along and said, “It is just south of Elbonia.”
His face lighting up, her boss said, “Oh, you mean over by Croatia.”