[731] in tlhIngan-Hol
bug/cootie (was: Re: -Daq: distinguishing ...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Apr 30 05:30:59 1993
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From: A.APPLEYARD@fs1.mt.umist.ac.uk
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Date: 30 Apr 93 09:12:00 GMT
cowan@snark.thyrsus.com (John Cowan) wrote on Thu, 29 Apr 1993 13:47:50
-0400 (EDT) re the TKD entry `ghew` = N "bug" and also "cootie":-
> Note also that "bug" has transatlantic semantic variation: in the U.K., I
understand, it refers only to the bedbug (>Cimex lectularius<), whereas in
North America it is an informal term for any insect, and indeed any bacterium.
And entomologists use the word "bug" to mean specifically the Hemiptera
order of insects.
