wh-h-histler

Updated: June 16, 2025

"I am so sorry, Mr. Whistler," apologized the scribe. "Whistler, sir? Whistler? That's not my name!" he cried, in a highly wrought voice. "I beg your pardon?" "That is not my name. I say, you don't seem to know your own language. W-h is pronounced Wh-h-h Wh-h-histler. Bah!" Max Beerbohm, the caricaturist, was rather clumsy with the Gallic tongue.

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