XL Country 100.7 KXLB Radio » pardon my french http://xlcountry.com Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:46:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 What's the Real Story Behind the Phrase 'Pardon My French?' http://xlcountry.com/pardon-my-french/ http://xlcountry.com/pardon-my-french/#comments Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:53:17 +0000 Carl Pettit http://tsminteractive.com/?p=81990 When you tell someone, “please pardon my French,” you are in fact apologizing for your offensive language. When French people speak French, they don’t say, “pardon my English” when they want to cuss someone out.

So what’s going on here? Do the French have better curse words than we do?

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