Also, "bug" + bacterium, virus, etc.; also "computer bug," as in "debug
the program"; but note, a bug in a program is not to be confused with a
computer virus!

Gene Hunn

[language is fun]

On Wed, 28 Jun 1995, Dennis Paulson wrote:

> >>It's an amazing bug
> >
> >I hope you don't really mean that butterflies are bugs. Have these
> >taxonomic radicals taken over entemology, as well? :)
> >
> >- Don Baccus, Portland OR <donb at rational.com>
>
>
> "bug" = member of insect order Hemiptera (sometimes called Heteroptera)
>
> "bug" also = slang or idiom for "insect"
>
> study of insects = entomology :)
>
> Dennis Paulson, Director phone: (206) 756-3798
> Slater Museum of Natural History fax: (206) 756-3352
> University of Puget Sound e-mail: dpaulson at ups.edu
> Tacoma, WA 98416
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