On 18 Aug 2004 18:34:35 GMT, (B2431) wrote:

From: Peter Twydell
Date: 8/18/2004 2:15 PM Central Daylight Time
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In article , Eunometic
writes

canard:
An unfounded or false, deliberately misleading story.

[French, duck, canard, probably from the phrase vendre un canard à
moitié, to half-sell a duck, to swindle, from Old French quanart,
duck, from caner, to cackle, of imitative origin.]

So a base canard is a duck with a deep voice?
--
Peter


Stop, you are quacking me up over here.

Eider know - one mention of canard and everyone is trying to get their
awful puns in. It's criminal I tell you!

Peter Kemp