Talk:Canard (computing)

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A canard is, if my poor french is correct, a duck. A duck in german is called an Ente, and this german word is also used to describe faked/wrong articles in newspapers(which might create a public misbelief). So just perhaps, that might have something to do with the origins of that word?

canard has an existing meaning in English of "a false or unfounded report or story; especially : a fabricated report" (Webster's), which is almost certainly the source for the DG variant. Now, the general English meaning may well have come from the German. (Or possibly "canard" has the same meaning in French also - isn't there some French satirical magazine with "Canard" in the name? That would explain the German, too.) Noel (talk) 03:50, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)