‘Oh, Tabernacle!’

Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 12.06.06 | 7:58 AM ET

You probably shouldn’t say that next time you’re in French-speaking Quebec. “It is too profane,” writes Washington Post correspondent Doug Struck. “So are other angry oaths that sound innocuous in English: chalice, host, baptism. In French-speaking Quebec, swearing sounds like an inventory being taken at a church.”