re: What are you reading?

Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian. Once you get through the chapter with all the sailing lingo it’s pretty good. I’m about halfway through and it’s surprisingly funny.

Captain Aubrey is trying to remember a French word and says “I think it’s putain.”

Doctor Maturin says no I don’t think that’s it. Aubrey says that’s definitely a word, I remember hearing it.

I looked up and the word and the definition just said “French for whore.”