Bob Ward wrote:

> The monk came out of the archives, his face ashen.".... the word was
> CelebRate...."

Which joke never worked for me, knowing full well that
being celibate was never a requirement before the Council
of Trent. And even there, although "caelibatus" is in the
Latin of the proceedings, as is also the word "celebratus",
there would be no way to confuse the two in context.

Charles