WATCH: How to Mount a Moth – Bugged, Episode 1
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Posted on September 25, 2017 - 11:04am
Over the centuries, bug has become an astonishingly versatile little word, with roughly six common meanings and 170 slang uses. But why? Where did the word come from and how did it manage to so infest the English language?
The question was buggin’ me, so I called up Geoffrey Nunberg, renowned linguist and professor at the Berkeley School of Information, to see what he could tell me.
Posted on September 7, 2017 - 4:07pm