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Tore Lund <tl001@online.no> writes:
[...]
> I bet they called it an "oversight" before that insect was found and the
> term "bug" was invented.  That is the most direct and honest word for
> it.  The effect of an oversight can be quite trivial, but it could also
> trigger off World War III.  If we need a new word, I vote for
> "oversight".

Quibble: the term "bug" didn't originate in the discovery of an
insect, at least not the one you're probably thinking of.  The moth in
a relay of the Harvard Mark II was logged as "First actual case of bug
being found", indicating that the term already existed.

See <http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/bug.html>.

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