http://wordie.org/words/canard Comments for the word 'Canard' http://wordie.org http://wordie.org/words/canard#comments A bright, deep blue like that found on a <a href="http://www.tiritirimatangi.org.nz/images/Birds/mallard.jpg">mallard's wing</a>. Sun, 11 May 2008 02:28:52 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/canard#comments http://wordie.org/words/canard#comments "For centuries, schoolboys first encountered the wisdom of the ancients in this predigested form. When Erasmus told the story of Pandora, he said that she opened not a jar, as in the original version of the story, by the Greek poet Hesiod, but a box. In every European language except Italian, Pandora’s box became proverbial—a <a href="/words/canard">canard</a> made ubiquitous by the power of a new information technology." - Future Reading, by Andrew Grafton, The New Yorker, Nov 1 2007 http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/11/05/071105fa_fact_grafton?currentPage=2 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:55:48 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/canard#comments http://wordie.org/words/canard#comments "A deliberately misleading fabrication" Mon, 13 Aug 2007 03:57:09 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/canard#comments