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"and you have to be careful or you'll soon spoil the whole impression of languid omniscience by writing "It was me and him"."
Surely, my reckless and raffish slippages of English grammar only aid and abet the impression of languid omniscience that I am so assiduously trying to cultivate here at Salon, no?
"As a Biddy, the soubriquet given to me by a group of English men with surnames sich as Pigot (final "t" silent), I can recognise rhe attempts at over-achievement more readily than most."
It would be in French that the "t" in Pigot is silent. In English the "t" at the end of "Pigot" is no more silent than, unfortunately you are.
And whilst I'm at it, sometime when I have nothing more on than the kettle you might want to swing by and explain just exactly what is meant by such words as "sich" and the word "rhe" as used by you in the quote above.
