Filling in for ~sunblok~
canard
SYLLABICATION: ca·nard
PRONUNCIATION: k-närd
NOUN: 1. An unfounded or false, deliberately misleading story. 2a. A short winglike control surface projecting from the fuselage of an aircraft, such as a space shuttle, mounted forward of the main wing and serving as a horizontal stabilizer. b. An aircraft whose horizontal stabilizing surfaces are forward of the main wing.
ETYMOLOGY: 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.
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By symmetricity, canards [2a., above] come in both left and right wing - difficult to stabilize the craft with only one. Shall we count the recurrence of phrases like "collectivism", or "gun to my head" in the posts of a certain Randian/Heinleinian Libertarian?