Ich Bin Ein Berliner

According the the Urban Legends website, the jelly doughnut Ich Bin Ein Berliner incident is:

“… The Gaffe That Never Was, notwithstanding reports to the contrary in venues as prestigious as the New York Times and Newsweek magazine. Experts say Kennedy’s grammar was flawless when he uttered those words in German near the Berlin Wall on June 26, 1963. The phrase had been translated for him by a professional interpreter.

It is true that the German word Berliner can denote either a person who is a citizen of Berlin, or a particular kind of jelly-filled pastry. But look at it this way: if I were to tell a group of Americans that my editor is a New Yorker, would any of them really think I’ve confused him with a certain weekly magazine of the same name?

But Eddie Izzard’s routine on this is SO-OOOOOO FUNNY, who cares whether it’s true or not?

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