Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!decvax!cca!ima!inmet!lutton From: lutton@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes.d Subject: Re: Origins of Words - (nf) Message-ID: <1678@inmet.UUCP> Date: Tue, 25-Sep-84 00:44:18 EDT Article-I.D.: inmet.1678 Posted: Tue Sep 25 00:44:18 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Sep-84 04:28:41 EDT Lines: 11 #N:inmet:11300015:000:313 inmet!lutton Sep 23 23:40:00 1984 <> We all know that Grace Hopper invented the current use of the word "bug" when a dead moth was discovered in a relay of the Harvard Mark I. It's really too bad someone had to stumble on a newspaper clipping from 1878 where the reporter mentioned that Edison was still getting the "bugs" out of the phonograph.