Re: The Gender Genie [OT: very]

[L Anderson lowella@xxxxxxxx]

Patricia M. Godfrey wrote:
> David Auerbach wrote:
> > And, what is the etymology of 'canard' in that sense?
> Literally, of course, canard is "duck"--the bird, wild and domestic. The
> term was also applied to broadsheets, usually of a somewhat scandalous

[snip]

I plugged the following in:

Obviously whoever devised that suffered from the delusion that men
cannot cook. Having several very good male cooks in my family, I KNOW
that's a canard.
Literally, of course, canard is "duck"--the bird, wild and domestic. The term
was also applied to broadsheets, usually of a somewhat scandalous nature, that
circulated among the "lower orders." It's also applied to a false note from a
musical instrument, particularly the clarinette (not sure if that's the same
as English clarinet). In fact, the Grand Larousse Encyclopédique (10vol.,
1960) doesn't even record the colloquial sense. The OED offers two possible
explanations: 1) from the expression "to half-sell a duck" (cf. our "selling
the Brooklyn Bridge"), a tale meant to cozen or deceive; or 2) from a story
that was widely circulated and believed purporting to demonstrate the voracity
of ducks.

and I got:

Female Score: 111
Male Score: 181.

Obviously, Patric is a cross dresser.

:-)