Y do people say excuse my french when they wanna say a bad word?

Answer 1

have you not seen the matix 2 when the guy started swearing in french it was cool. aperently the best language to swear in. if spanish is the language of love. then i guess french is the language to curse. but seriously .

What is the origin of the phrase pardon my French?

This phrase, in which French refers to "bad language", is employed
when the speaker feels compelled to use an obscenity despite having
listeners who might be offended. It's a late 19th century euphemism
which first appeared in Harper's Magazine in 1895.

It is thought that the term French is employed in this sense as it
already had a history of association with things considered vulgar.
As far back as the early 16th century, French pox and the French
disease were synonyms for genital herpes, and French-sick was another
term for syphillis. The OED [Oxford English Dictionary] also equates
the adjective French with "spiciness", as in French letter for
"condom", French kiss (1923) and French (i. e. "sexually explicit")
novels (from 1749).

Why does someone who swears "apologize" by saying, "Pardon my French?"

This phrase is simply another of the many American and English
expressions that equate anything French with sex and obscenity. French
postcards, French novels and French kissing connote the risque.
"Pardon my French" started circulating on both sides of the Atlantic
around 1916, and almost certainly stems from the World War I escapades
of American and British soldiers.

Where does the phrase "pardon my French" come from?

the phrase in this form started out in the 1950s as an offshoot
of "excuse my French." This is a result of racial stereotyping -
Anglo-Saxons of the late 19th century blamed the French for anything
remotely dirty. The belief started in the mid 19th century and held
that was France sex-obsessed and pornographic.

Answer 2

Because there's nothing good about the French so a bad word must be French.

What's funny, though, is that most of those bad words are actually Anglo-Saxon in origin, not at all French.

Answer 3

The French are[were] associated with being vulgar and were never friends with Great Britain. So it was a saying used either saying something vulgar after or before you do so. It's not the speaker who is vulgar, it's the French and they're the scapegoat for the speaker's vulgarity.

Answer 4

A coy phrase used when someone who has used a swearword attempts to pass it off as French. The coyness comes from the fact the both the speaker and listener are of course both well aware the swearword is indeed English.

Meaning

Please forgive my swearing.

Answer 5

I would think it's because during the late 18th to early 19th century the French were said to live in a very bourgeoisie lifestyle filled with decadence.

Answer 6

Because the french are mean dirty people.. In the last 100 years anyway...

My grandfather told me stories how the french steal from dead soldiers in combat.

Answer 7

French spellings,usage ,diction and grammar are difficult to comprehend. English speaking people think it is a strange language.

Answer 8

because the French are known to be nasty and repulsive- (they smell bad, too) so - excuse my french - or excuse me when i get nasty and repulsive

Answer 9

b/c the french have all the dirty words

Answer 10

Because all french people are gay