"Indeed," George Washington wrote in his diary in 1785, " some kind of fly, or bug, had begun to eat the leaves before I left home. " But the father of America was not the father of bug. When Washington wrote that, Englishmen had been referring to insects as bugs for more than a century,and Americans had already created lightning-bug .But the English were soon to stop using the bugs in their language, leaving it to the Americans to call a bug a bug in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 

The American bug could also be a person, referring to someone who was crazy about a particular activity. Although fan became the usual term, sports fans used to be called racing bugs, baseball bugs, and the like. 

Or the bug could be a small machine or object, for example, a bug-shaped car. The bug could also be a burglar alarm, from which comes the expression to bug,that is,"to install an alarm". Now it means a small piece of equipment that people use for listening secretly to others' conversations. Since the 1840s,to bug has long meant" to cheat" , and since the 1940s it has been annoying. 

We also know the bug as a _ in a computer program or other design. That meaning dates back to the time of Thomas Edison. In 1878 he explained bugs as"little problems and difficulties" that required months of study and labor to overcome in developing a successful product. In 1889 it was recorded that Edison" had been up the two previous nights discovering' a bug' in his invented record player." QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. What is the main subject of the article?
2. What does the article broadly discuss?
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Q2:
1. What can be a definition of a bug?
2. What might one mean by the term bug?
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Q3:
1. Who had a diary entry regarding bugs?
2. In whose journal did a discussion of bugs appear?
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Q4:
1. What year did George Washington write about bugs?
2. In what year did bugs appear in George Washington's journal?
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Q5:
1. Do the English still use the word bugs?
2. Does the term bug still appear in the British vernacular?
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Q6:
1. What else might a bug refer to if not a person or an insect?
2. What are other possible meanings for the word bug, if not a person or an insect?
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Q7:
1. What is an example of a machine that people call a bug?
2. What might be a machine or object that is albelled a bug?
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Q8:
1. What is the name for a small object meant to drop in on conversations?
2. What's the word for a tiny listening device?
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Q9:
1. What does the word bug mean when referring to computers?
2. How is the term bug used in a technological context?
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Q10:
1. What inventor used bugs referring to problems with computers?
2. Who used the word bug as a way of talking about computer issues?
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