I can’t pretend that I was ever a dab hand in distinguishing between masculine and feminine nouns in French. You know, la maison but le jardin and so on. But until fairly recently I wasn’t too bad, and it’s only in the last few months that such prowess as I might once have possessed has deserted me. No matter how many times my wife takes me to task for saying la charme instead of le charme or, to take a word much in use at the moment, la masque instead of le masque, I can’t seem to get it into my thick head.
My father-in-law, aka Count Dracula, never misses a chance to point to my failure to master the French language after living fifty years in the country. Thank you Count. Your English is not up to much either.
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