“To speak with forked tongue” appropriately, on one account of its origins, goes back to 1699, to the French army in America, which invited the Iroquois Indians to attend a peace conference, only to have the French end up treacherously butchering all the attending Iroquois. Thenceforth, for Indians, to speak with “forked tongue” meant to… Continua a leggere TO SPEAK WITH “FORKED TONGUE”: OR, THE DISHONESTY OF TED CRUZ, PRESIDENTAL ASPIRANT