Was he a racist? Not exactly. But he was a linguicist — to use a disparaging word deployed by the Language Rights Movement (a group founded at Roskilde University in Denmark, which campaigns for a universal declaration of linguistic human rights).

His only problem with them is that they don’t appreciate his style of joke. ... Not ha-ha funny maybe, but no one had even smiled.

I was the one who convinced her you would not tup her, and that if you did you would never lie with her against her will.

A plain brown bob he wore.