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Folks, etymology is down the hall. This is the entomology department.
(ducks)
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the OED is the greatest toy ever devised for linguistic pedants. Very often, your library card gets you past the gate.
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10 out of 10!
(But I’ll get your coat.)
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Technically the OED2. 
(I’m sorry. I couldn’t help myself. The fruit was so low.)
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Nor are they insects, which are a superset of bugs.
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I overslept.
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Oh Jesus, I remember the first time I watched that scene when the movie came out. I actually find most bugs really interesting, but I freakin’ HATE cockroaches, (also fleas, mosquitoes, wasps, etc.)
so they “pinned” the employee uniforms to the wall. something a batman villain would do to remind the person who provided the uniforms that they were compromised. (ta-duh!) And you thought the private lives of bug collectors was dull? this speaks of intrigue and undercurrent, the stuff of survival where only the most fit become head curator. Bah! back to your computer games, you wouldn’t last a week out there.
Well, if bug collectors are anything like fossil fanciers…
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On the other hand, as a microbiologist, we call bacteria “bugs” all the time, and they are much farther evolutionarily from the “true bugs” than spiders are.
English speakers need to take a page from computer programmers, who have long since learned that variables need to be named clearly and distinctly.
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I’m just guessing, though, that if important specimens were stolen from your collections, you’d probably want to be quite a bit more specific than that.
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