Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1905 — A Matter of Gender. [ARTICLE]

A Matter of Gender.

The English language is supposed to be very simple in the matter of genders, but foreigners who triumphantly handle questions of gender of inanimate things in their own languages often have their difficulties with the English. A Frenchman recently came to grief over his English. “I fear I cockroach too much upon your time, madame,” he remarked politely to his hostess. “En-croaeh, monsieur,” she smilingly corrected him. He threw up his hands In despair. “Ah, your English genders!” he sighed.