Notes on  BAD AND WRONG 

[Durham, UK] Said of something that is both badly designed and
wrongly executed. This common term is the prototype of, and is used
by contrast with, three less common terms -- Bad and Right (a kludge,
something ugly but functional); Good and Wrong (an overblown GUI or
other attractive nuisance); and (rare praise) Good and Right. These
terms entered common use at Durham c.1994 and may have been imported
from elsewhere; they are also in use at Oxford, and the emphatic form
"Evil and Bad and Wrong" (abbreviated EBW) is reported from there.
There are standard abbreviations: they start with B&R, a typo for
"Bad and Wrong". Consequently, B&W is actually "Bad and Right", G&R =
"Good and Wrong", and G&W = "Good and Right". Compare
EVIL AND RUDE, GOOD THING, BAD THING.

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