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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")....
• 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....
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• It's hard to believe it, but some teens are humans.
• Some things, they're hard to say.