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What a fascinating document! I must read it carefully at more leisure. One item that struck me immediately, though, was ‘so-called’. Given that there are equivalent terms in both French and German, I can only assume that neither soi-disant nor sogenannt carries the same connotation of mistrust as the English phrase – something I hadn’t realized.