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• Etymology, n.: Some early etymological scholars came up with derivations that were hard for the public to believe.
  The term "etymology" was formed from the Latin "etus" ("eaten"), the root "mal" ("bad"), and "logy" ("study of")....
• ETYMOLOGY: Some early etymological scholars come up with derivations that were hard for the public to believe.
  The term 'etymology' was formed from the Latin 'etus' ("eaten"), the root 'mal' ("bad"), and 'logy' ("study of")....
• Bad Thing: [from the 1930 Sellar & Yeatman parody "1066 And All That"] n.
  Something that can't possibly result in improvement of the subject....
• Psychoceramics: The study of hard-headed SysOps.
• canonical adj. [very common; historically, `according to religious law'] The usual or standard state or manner of something.
  This word has a somewhat more technical meaning in mathematics....
• We believe that the reptiles came from the amphibians by spontaneous generation and study of rocks.
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• crufty /kruhf'tee/ adj. [very common; origin unknow
  poss. from `crusty' or `cruddy'] 1. Poorly built, possibly over-complex....