‘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.”
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
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