grichter opened this issue on Mar 27, 2011 · 19 posts
ockham posted Mon, 28 March 2011 at 7:35 AM
E-bob, thanks for Snoping that. I'd also heard the story about fur-to-glass "mistranslation" and believed it without looking up any sources. The Snopes debunk makes sense: the English translator was working from a written text, not trying to transcribe an oral version, so there was no reason for the vair/verre error.