“When you start to become aware of these bogus quotations, you can’t stop finding them. Henry James, George Eliot, Picasso—all of them are being kept alive in popular culture through pithy, cheery sayings they never actually said.”
Brian Morton
more infosource: “Falser Words Were Never Spoken,” The New York Times, August 29, 2011.
category: bogus, fact check, false, quotation
medium: Op-Ed
“Canard. That’s a good word. It’s hard to use, though, without being awkward. I’ve not found too many sentences I can put it in.”
Jerry Brown
more infosource: “Governor Brown Redux: The Iceman Melteth,” by Maureen Down, The New York Times, March 5, 2011.
category: false, language, words
medium: Op-Ed
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