bug = goblin
(Из ленты QA — грамотно)
.. →I’m sticking with “bug” rather than adopt another word such as “fault,” which is the current fad in publications because:
(1) everybody knows what “bug” means;
(2) the standards are inconsistent with one another and with themselves in the definition of “fault,” “error,” and “failure”;
(3) according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the usage of “bug” the way we use it, contrary to popular belief, predates its entomological use by centuries—the first written reference to “bug” = “goblin” is from 1388, but its first use to mean a small, six-legged creature with a hard carapace dates from 1642;
(4) I prefer short, strong, Anglo-Saxon words to effete Norman words.
