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Etymologically irksome, too MT
@sapinker: Have you ever wondered what a "bug" is?@ahdictionary blog on bugs - http://goo.gl/y00JXO ”Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker This combines etymology with entomology!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker "The bug which you would fright me with I seek." http://shakespeare.mit.edu/winters_tale/winters_tale.3.2.html …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker I was once part of a discussion about where bug first appears in English: http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2011/05/11/whats-a-bug/#comment-101421 …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker So politicians really do 'bug' people!#taxonomiesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker Apparently, the ultimate root, *bhugo, meant "lamb" or "goat". Some ectoparasitic insects were looked as "mini-goats"Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker You know the lovely story about Grace Hopper popularising the term as a computer glitch after a moth flew into her relay?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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