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Updated: May 11, 2025
A great many persons told him that the word was "bagpipes," and not "bugpipes." But he replied with irritable obstinacy: "I am Victor Hugo; and if I choose to write it 'bugpipes, it IS 'bugpipes. It is anything that I prefer to make it. It is so, because I call it so!"
"I am an Englishman," was the answer, "and naturally I know what names are possible in English." Hugo drew himself up still higher, and on his face there was a smile of utter contempt. "Yes," said he. "You are an Englishman; but I I am Victor Hugo." In another book Hugo had spoken of the Scottish bagpipes as "bugpipes." This gave some offense to his Scottish admirers.
"I am an Englishman," was the answer, "and naturally I know what names are possible in English." Hugo drew himself up still higher, and on his face there was a smile of utter contempt. "Yes," said he. "You are an Englishman; but I I am Victor Hugo." In another book Hugo had spoken of the Scottish bagpipes as "bugpipes." This gave some offense to his Scottish admirers.
A great many persons told him that the word was "bagpipes," and not "bugpipes." But he replied with irritable obstinacy: "I am Victor Hugo; and if I choose to write it 'bugpipes, it IS 'bugpipes. It is anything that I prefer to make it. It is so, because I call it so!"
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