Talk:Mad as a March hare

Chaucer, indeed

I just edited this to remove a spurious note claiming the phrase originates in Chaucer's Friar's Tale. -- Evertype·✆ 09:15, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

'Incorrect' Claim Citation

If a phrase has been in use for several hundred years, shouldn't a claim that the concept is "incorrect" as the article currently states (Jan 11 2011) rely on a more substantial citation than some random BBC radio show with no transcript? I'd say the word 'incorrect' should be excised or replaced with a "argued by some to be incorrect" at the most. Saying something is wrong is not the same as showing it is wrong. Or, perhaps, I simply am unable to read the '(incorrectly)' in the text. Who knows what the BBC citation refers to, since there is no transcript, I'm not going to listen to a long audio file to try to discern what the wp editor has in mind. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.55.170.9 (talk) 10:51, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Contradictory text

The phrases "said to occur (some say incorrectly)" and "A long-held view is that the hare will behave strangely and excitedly throughout its breeding season, which in Europe is the month of March (but which in fact extends over several months beyond March)." are self contradictory and make this article nonsensical. Can someone rephrase these? --Khajidha (talk) 12:24, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

Hares do breed into early summer. However, the boxing behaviour isn't so obvious when the grass gets long. I was expecting someone to say that the expression should be "mad as a marsh hare". Personally I don't agree, but there is a source for this somewhere.222.246.251.206 (talk) 12:22, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

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