Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1910 — Used the Wrong Gender. [ARTICLE]

Used the Wrong Gender.

A Frenchman with an imperfect knowledge of English was once called upon for an after dinner speech. He Btruggled along manfully for a few minutes, managing to turn one or two good phrases. Finally he excused himself from further effort by saying: “I will no longer cockroach on your time.” An Englishman sitting next to him at the table remarked: “Your speech was dooced clever, bah Jove! But you used the wrong word at the close, don’t you know? You should have said: ‘I will no longer hencroach upon your time.’ ” “I see,” said the Frenchman. “I used the wrong gender."