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Originally Posted by Lonewulf
Out of curiosity, does anyone know where the phrase "Pardon my French" comes from? I'd have thought that it would've been something like "Pardon my German", considering how vulgar German sounds when you're just saying a polite phrase.
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Ah, but the English came up with the expression "pardon my French." Remember, England and France have been at war with one another many, many times over the last thousand years. Calling bad things French was an insult to the thing and the French, all at once. (A related term is the old-fashioned slang of "French letter" for condom.)
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