What’s the story behind your nickname?

At school they called me Vingit

because of how I said

the word in French for twenty

written down as ‘vingt’.

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I never got the accent

and found this specially hard.

As far as I can understand

it should sound more like ‘van’.

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The English are so awful

at learning other tongues.

I guess because we’re fortunate

to own the best known one.

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If you don’t understand us

We’ll just speak extra loud

Our grip of foreign languages

Not one to make us proud.