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