From: utzoo!decvax!yale-com!brunix!gh
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Title: Re: new bug word?
Article-I.D.: brunix.1297
Posted: Tue Jan 25 14:25:18 1983
Received: Sun Feb  6 02:58:11 1983
References: houxa.151

The word "misfeature" was in Guy Steele's "A.I. Hacker's Dictionary" in 1977,
if not earlier.  It is a clever portmanteau word describing "a feature that
misfired".  Since the dictionary has received wide informal distribution,
and was intended to be describe words already in use, at least round the
MIT AI Lab, it is reasonable to suppose there are quite a number of
people out there who use the word.
	Graeme Hirst