From: bakul@bitblocks.com (Bakul Shah)
Subject: [TUHS] Origin of "bug" (was: Grace Hopper)
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2017 16:30:57 -0800 [thread overview]
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May be it is derived from “bugbear”? As per Merriam-Webster:
1) an imaginary goblin or specter used to excite fear
2) a source of dread, a continuing source of irritation: a problem.
First known use 1552.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-10 0:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-08 23:26 [TUHS] Grace Hopper Dave Horsfall
2017-12-09 0:05 ` Larry McVoy
2017-12-09 0:39 ` Mike Markowski
2017-12-09 3:21 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-09 10:04 ` Jason Stevens
2017-12-09 17:31 ` Paul Winalski
2017-12-09 20:03 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-12-09 18:03 ` arnold
2017-12-09 23:17 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-09 23:41 ` [TUHS] Origin of "bug" (was: Grace Hopper) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-12-10 0:30 ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2017-12-10 3:20 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
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